>>>>> On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 18:21:08 +1000, Luke Mewburn <lukem@netbsd.org> said:

> What is so special about BIND8's get*by*() functions over ours?
> AFAICT, nothing.  According to SUSv3, gethostbyname() (et al) don't
> have to be reentrant.

Yeah.
And surprisingly, gethostbyname() in the IRS library *is* reentrant.
Because the IRS implementation holds all necessary information in
thread-specific data. That's one of reasons why I do not prefer
the IRS implementation. It's wasteful.
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soda