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----- Original Message -----=20
From: "Daniel Eischen" <eischen@vigrid.com>
To: "Terry Lambert" <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc: <threads@freebsd.org>; "Kris Kennaway" <kris@obsecurity.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 2:17 AM
Subject: Re: Removal of bogus gethostbyaddr_r()


> On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Terry Lambert wrote:
>=20
> > Daniel Eischen wrote:
> > > On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > > > Any objections?
> > >=20
> > > Why is this bogus?  Do we have another gethostbyaddr_r hiding
> > > somewhere?
> >=20
> > It lies?  (_r).
>=20
> If that's true, then it's a bug and eventually should
> be fixed.  Additionally, you can't go around removing
> public interfaces without bumping library versions
> (unless said interface hasn't seen a release yet).
>=20

I think those *_r interfaces are not very useful except
bloating library. why do not improve non _r version to use
thread local instead to make them reentrant between threads ?

> --=20
> Dan Eischen
>=20
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