Subject: Re: is netbsd resolver reentrant?
To: None <tech-userlevel@netbsd.org>
From: Wolfgang S. Rupprecht <wolfgang+gnus20040220T133734@dailyplanet.dontspam.wsrcc.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 02/20/2004 13:40:35
christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas) writes:
> In article <x7wu6h7ccj.fsf@capsicum.wsrcc.com>,
> Wolfgang S. Rupprecht <wolfgang+gnus20040220T114511@dailyplanet.dontspam.wsrcc.com> wrote:
>>
>>Is the netbsd-current resolver
>
> no
>
> (and libc for that matter) reentrant?
>
> portions of it are, according to each functions spec.

Is there something in the thread infrastructure that would prevent the
non-reentrant functions from being called reentrantly or can threaded
programs just be expected to blow up when a non-reentrant function
gets called in a nested fashion from different threads?

-wolfgang