On 10/8/05, Zoran Vasiljevic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No luck: this (NetBSD) system does not have any MT-safe call. > What I did: > > During the configure I emit the warning if compiling under Darwin. > > checking for getaddrinfo in -lsocket... no > checking for getnameinfo in -lsocket... no > checking for getaddrinfo... yes > checking for getnameinfo... yes > checking for gethostbyname_r... no > checking for gethostbyaddr_r... no > configure: WARNING: DNS queries will use non-threadsafe calls which > could result in server instability > > In dns.c I added > > #ifdef __APPLE__ > Ns_Cs cs; > Ns_CsEnter(&cs); > ... > Ns_CsLeave(&cs); > #endif > > to cope with this *at least* within our own program. This does not > guarantee that this is MT-safe because any of the rest of the > system may call those calls anytime, hence we get problems anyways.
btw. is this the case with the latest OSX release? I seem to remember they updated the unix stuff, replacing a lot of the original NetBSD infrastructure with newer FreeBSD. Maybe the answer is to only support OSX >= 10.x, is that's possible...?
