Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 20:11:52 -0500 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org> To: Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: new NSS Message-ID: <20030418011152.GE4001@madman.celabo.org> In-Reply-To: <20030417201824.J6156@cvs.imp.ch> References: <20030417201824.J6156@cvs.imp.ch>
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On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 08:24:29PM +0200, Martin Blapp wrote: > 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 ? Yes, before 5.1. I'm already using some modifications for it on my system, but the code is very scary and frankly I think it needs to be reworked. Funny how I'd rather break getpwent than resolver-related stuff :-) > What about the nsscache implemenation we talked once ? I guess with > the work you have done this is a lot easier, right ? Yes, we pretty much have to have standard interfaces before we can have a cache. Cheers, -- Jacques A. Vidrine <nectar@celabo.org> http://www.celabo.org/ NTT/Verio SME . FreeBSD UNIX . Heimdal Kerberos jvidrine@verio.net . nectar@FreeBSD.org . nectar@kth.se
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