On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 12:20:30PM -0700, Brad Davis wrote:
> I did a quick perusal of the source (and compared it against the
> NetBSD tree) and it looks like the easiest way to
> make getaddrinfo() thread safe is to TURN OFF Yellow Pages (pee).
>
> NetBSD changes the only "variable" globals to local (in they yp code
> by removing the caching optimization) and puts
> a mutex in the yp code to protect its global variables.
>
> I would do the work but I can't test it (I have refused to use YP
> for the last 17.5 years). If someone volunteers to
> test, I'll rework the code.
>
> Brad Davis
Sorry, YP has to stay in.
-Otto
