From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 25 8:36:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f233.law7.hotmail.com [216.33.237.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDB2937B42C for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 08:36:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 08:36:15 -0700 Received: from 209.249.186.215 by lw7fd.law7.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 GMT X-Originating-IP: [209.249.186.215] From: "Greg Thompson" To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Document about threads Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 11:36:15 EDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 Aug 2000 15:36:15.0728 (UTC) FILETIME=[34ABD700:01C00EAA] Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >From: "Bryan K. Ogawa" > >If anyone who knows about the state of the FreeBSD threads implementation >could go through it and check it for factual errors, missing bits, etc. >then that would be great. in your section about common reentrant extensions, you mention the IPv6 apis. these are currently _not_ a viable alternative to the missing traditional gethostby{name,addr}_r entrypoints due to a bug in KAME. they are not threadsafe. your process will deadlock if multiple threads call getipnodeby{addr,name}. see http://orange.kame.net/dev/query-pr.cgi?pr=277. -- -greg ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message