> > 	which source code are you looking at?  i guess you are looking at
> > 	something wrong.  if you look at BIND8 src/lib/irs/gethostent.c,
> > 		gethostbyname() calls gethostbyname_p()
> > 		gethostbyname_p() calls gethostbyname2_p()
> > 		gethostbyname2_p() does the real thing
> > 	so i see no problem here.
>That are these _p functions?  Do they use thread-specific data, or
>do they simply use a global context structure?

	gethostbyname_p() uses thread-specific data, which is typed
	struct net_data.

itojun