From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 3 23: 0:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from softweyr.com (softweyr.com [208.247.99.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44E6237B408 for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 23:00:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from blabber.softweyr.com ([204.68.178.36] helo=softweyr.com) by softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 15Sudi-000AKv-00; Sat, 04 Aug 2001 00:10:22 -0600 Message-ID: <3B6B9052.5FE460B7@softweyr.com> Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2001 00:04:02 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Alexander Litvin , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gethostbyXXXX_r() References: <20010803105321.A37737@unknown.whichever.org> <20010803131115.F85642@elvis.mu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > * Alexander Litvin [010803 09:54] wrote: > > Are there any plans of making gethostbyname_r() and gethostbyaddr_r() > > available in FreeBSD? May be somebody already has them almost ready > > to be commited? Or are there any considered wrong way to go? > > > > The reason I'm asking is that I actually have a local patch implementing > > them here (only for DNS for now). Is it good idea to put some effort to > > finalaze it and submit a PR? Or I'd better not waist time on that? > > Please complete it, let me know when you submit the PR i'll try > to get it integrated. I'll be happy to take a look at it too. I did a lot of the _r routines we have now, in some cases simply documenting ones that were there, but halted when I got to gethostbyX_r and the passwd and group variants, because they were too fugly to tackle at that time. I'll get back to the remainder "someday", when I have the time, unless you beat me to it. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message