Am 11.04.2005 um 05:05 schrieb Stephen Deasey:
I guess this is an OSX problem? While looking at the configure tests,
I noticed that gethostbyname_r etc. are not used on Linux, even though
they're available. The standard call is thread safe, but only because
glibc puts a lock around everything.
I wonder if for performance the *_r variants should always be
preferred...?
Actually, this happens only on Solaris 2.6 (yes, we still must support
2.6). No, the performance isn't the main reason. The main reason is
other code using the non-mt-code. We can't just lock the call ourselves.
We could do that if we were sitting in the libc, but we are not.
Besides, this is/was a bug.
Zoran
