On 2007.10.22, Andrew Piskorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But, why call these non-thread-safe functions there, rather than
> Ns_GetAddrByHost() and Ns_GetHostByAddr()?

Good question!  Without looking too deeply at the code, the two
functions you reference uses mutexes and caches--things that I don't
believe are initialized at the early time of Ns_DriverInit's invoking.

I haven't actually researched this, so I could be totally wrong.

> Alos, if we do keep the use of gethostbyname(), ideally someone would
> add a comment saying why, and that it's safe, like Dossy explained in
> that old ticket.

Feel free to copy my explanation into the source as a comment, if you
feel it's valuable to do so.

-- Dossy

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