Re: getservbyname_r

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20080723144255.3b05284b.jklowden%schemamania.org@localhost>,
James K. Lowden <netbsd-users%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:
>What is the status of getservbyname_r?  There's no man page, but it seems
>to be referenced in netdb.c.  
>
>I'm trying to determine if FreeTDS can be run in threadsafe mode on
>NetBSD.  It requires the usual suite of reentrant networking functions.  

It is not documented because it is an ugly api and non-standard. Why
don't you use getnameinfo/getaddrinfo?

christos