From owner-freebsd-threads@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 18 19:12:09 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE60C37B401 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 19:12:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.pcnet.com (mail.pcnet.com [204.213.232.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EE5D43F93 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 19:12:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eischen@vigrid.com) Received: from mail.pcnet.com (mail.pcnet.com [204.213.232.4]) by mail.pcnet.com (8.12.8/8.12.1) with ESMTP id h5J2C8Xh004553; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 22:12:08 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 22:12:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Eischen X-Sender: eischen@pcnet5.pcnet.com To: Kris Kennaway In-Reply-To: <20030618210812.GB21622@rot13.obsecurity.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: threads@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removal of bogus gethostbyaddr_r() X-BeenThere: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Threading on FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 02:12:10 -0000 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