>  | 	bzzt.  it's not enough.  it calls functions that are not thread safe.
>  | 	(if everyone calls getaddrinfo and getaddrinfo only, it's okay, but
>  | 	in reality that's a crazy assumption)
>(i assume you meant "if everyone calls getaddrinfo and gethostinfo only")

	no, i meant "getadddrinfo, and getaddrinfo only".

>any threaded software that calls gethostbyname() or getaddrbyname()
>(et al) should expect that those functions are not, and never have to
>be thread safe.
>
>and NetBSD currently does not have gethostbyname_r()...
>
>so, besides our getaddrinfo() and getnameinfo(), which existing
>non-thread-safe functions need to be?

	maybe these are all (i'm digging standards document now), but as
	getaddrinfo/getnameinfo needs thread-safe backend anyways, we should
	probably provide get*by*_r and such.  even if they're not in standards
	they are pretty much everywhere.

itojun