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Hi Jacques,

>Other nsdispatch consumers will be updated once this has settled a
>bit.  Notably, the resolver-related routines (gethostby*, getaddrinfo)
>still need to be updated and required quite a bit of work.

IMHO threads-safe versions of gethostby* are very important. getaddrinfo
is already threads-safe. Do you plan to do this yourself ? And if so,
before 5.1/5.2 ?

What about the nsscache implemenation we talked once ? I guess with
the work you have done this is a lot easier, right ?

Martin

Martin Blapp, <mb@imp.ch> <mbr@FreeBSD.org>
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