Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 20:00:05 -0600 (CST) From: hawkeyd@visi.com (D J Hawkey Jr) To: agapon@excite.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multi-threaded or async Mozilla (NSPR, really) Message-ID: <200212310200.gBV205G03285@sheol.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20021222131200.J6771-100000_edge.foundation.invalid@ns.sol.net> References: <20021222131200.J6771-100000_edge.foundation.invalid@ns.sol.net>
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In article <20021222131200.J6771-100000_edge.foundation.invalid@ns.sol.net>, agapon@excite.com writes: > > as a matter of fact gethost*() family of calls is not thread-safe in > FreeBSD. > You can search FreeBSD PRs and mozilla's bugzilla for "mozilla DNS" to see > previous discussions and efforts. Without checking, I'll take your word for it. But if so, what are they doing in libc_r? I thought that was for re-entrant/thread-safe functions? Is there an appreciable difference between "re-entrant" and "thread-safe"? Thanks, Dave -- Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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