Subject: Re: gethostbyname & gethostbyaddr in libc thread-safe yet?
To: None <christos@zoulas.com>
From: Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@itojun.org>
List: tech-net
Date: 05/26/2004 13:44:49
> The manual page of getaddrinfo is out of date (it is thread-safe in
> NetBSD-current). I would suggest to look into linking with the lwres_
> library that comes with bind9. Other than that, you can use mutexes
> to protect the current gethostbyfoo(), but that will make it really
> slow. Another approach is to fork, which is worse.

	no, getaddrinfo is not thread-safe yet in netbsd-current.

	getadddrinfo: _yp_getaddrinfo, see variable __ypcurrent

	btw, include/resolve.h was not updated when lib/libc/resolv is updated.
	is there any reason why?

itojun