Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 19:45:10 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Bogus "temporary" gethostbyaddr_r() in libc for 6 years Message-ID: <3EED2F36.91132A4E@mindspring.com> References: <20030616015459.GA35478@rot13.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote: > There's a bogus implementation of gethostbyaddr_r() in > lib/libc/net/gethostnamadr.c that was committed 6 years and nine > months ago: [...] > What's the deal here? Despite the fact that this is not prototyped in > a header, some ports are detecting this, and -- one assumes -- not > behaving correctly since this implementation isn't thread-safe. It should be removed. It's really hard to write a multithreaded version of this function, since it's essentially a request/response protocol. The most correct implementation would use a seperate worker thread and queue requests to it. -- Terry
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