Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 22:12:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: threads@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removal of bogus gethostbyaddr_r() Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10306182206300.3647-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20030618210812.GB21622@rot13.obsecurity.org>
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On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 08:59:23AM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > > Any objections? > > > > > > Kris > > > > Why is this bogus? Do we have another gethostbyaddr_r hiding > > somewhere? > > Nope, but this one isn't thread-safe, and it's not prototyped anywhere > (see my mail to current from a few days ago). We don't have any of > the other getfoobybar_r functions either. Well, I guess we should probably fix the prototype and make it thread-safe, but if ports are failing because they pick it up, then I don't have a problem with removing it. What's there is simple enough to add back once it has the correct API and is really thread-safe. My $.02. -- Dan Eischen
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