On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 09:35:21AM +0200, Sascha Schumann wrote: > That is clearly wishful thinking -- strtok/gethostbyname are > legacy, non-reentrant APIs according to POSIX/SUSv3.
Oh, of course. > What's his problem with the reentrant APIs? Is the cost of > transition too painful for him? Mark has stated that he wants the C libraries to fix it not him. (He's said this since approximately December 1998.) I believe people have tried to submit patches to use strtok_r() and gethostbyname_r() and he refuses to accept them. (Similarly, he refuses to accept patches to build c-client as a shared library.) It's his code, so he can do that if we wants. I'm not going to tell him what to do. -- justin
