From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 30 08:03:32 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABB6137B401 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 08:03:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cheer.mahoroba.org (flets19-022.kamome.or.jp [218.45.19.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2052543FF2 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 08:03:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ume@mahoroba.org) Received: from mille.mahoroba.org (IDENT:FvixKT1B6UReaNLG6csntvJzbSWmzoE7KEcew8UQU/PCd/jSQBcTmtTkaUPfXeUT@mille.mahoroba.org [IPv6:3ffe:501:185b:8010:202:2dff:fe0a:6bee]) (user=ume mech=CRAM-MD5 bits=0)h5UF3P1O030058 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 1 Jul 2003 00:03:25 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from ume@mahoroba.org) Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 00:03:25 +0900 Message-ID: From: Hajimu UMEMOTO To: Stijn Hoop In-Reply-To: <20030630144327.GB11983@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> References: <20030630144327.GB11983@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> User-Agent: xcite1.38> Wanderlust/2.11.0 (Wonderwall) SEMI/1.14.5 (Awara-Onsen) FLIM/1.14.5 (Demachiyanagi) APEL/10.4 Emacs/21.3 (i386--freebsd) MULE/5.0 (=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOC1MWhsoQg==?=) X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.5 - "Awara-Onsen") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,REFERENCES,USER_AGENT version=2.55 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gethostbyname_r X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 15:03:33 -0000 Hi, >>>>> On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 16:43:27 +0200 >>>>> Stijn Hoop said: stijn> I was wondering if anybody was working on an implementation of a reentrant stijn> gethostbyname_r function, mostly because it looks like mozilla/firebird will stijn> finally gain support for an async DNS thread in the near future. However, stijn> it is claimed in Mozilla's bug reporting system that FreeBSD 5.x doesn't stijn> have support for this. See stijn> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70213#c36 I believe Mozilla uses getipnodeby*() on FreeBSD. getipnodeby*() calls do giant lock to expect thread-safe. So, I believe we don't need gethostbyname_r() for Mozilla. Sincerely, -- Hajimu UMEMOTO @ Internet Mutual Aid Society Yokohama, Japan ume@mahoroba.org ume@bisd.hitachi.co.jp ume@{,jp.}FreeBSD.org http://www.imasy.org/~ume/