Subject: Re: getaddrinfo() vs. JVM
To: Charles M. Hannum <abuse@spamalicious.com>
From: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 01/09/2005 12:52:49
Charles M. Hannum wrote:
> > 2) Put a mutex around getservbyname() and/or getaddrinfo().  Is there a way
> > to do this in libc that will work both with and without libpthread?
> 
> I've done this.  See the following patches.

Is the mutex around the calls to _r() functions really needed?
If they are marked _r, they should already be reentrant, shouldn't they?

Jaromir
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