getprotobyname -- thread local or _r?

[Jay K <jayk123%hotmail.com@localhost>]

Hi. This is probably an ancient topic and I didn't search the archives yet.

A quick survey of operating system man pages says that in the vast majority of cases, either getprotobyname etc. returns data in a thread local, or getprotobyname_r, etc. are provided.

getprotobyname uses thread local: OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NT, MacOSX.
getprotobyname_r is provided: Linux, HP-UX, AIX, Solaris.
Sometimes both: Tru64 (_r for compat, thread local for "real").
No-op: Android?

NetBSD seems to be the outlier here.

Some people suggest to wrap one's own users in a lock, but this does not suffice. Everyone's uses within a process must be wrapped with the same lock. And not everyone can be coordinated to do so.

Can this please be "fixed"?

Thank you,
 - Jay