On 10/17/05, Zoran Vasiljevic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am 17.10.2005 um 03:36 schrieb Stephen Deasey: > > > Why can't we fall back to using gethostbyname() on Darwin with it's > > mt-unsafe getaddrinfo()? gethostbyname() is also mt-unsafe, but we > > already have a critical section around that. If we have critical > > sections around two separate dns calls which return the same results, > > there's really no advantage in choosing one over the other, right? > > > > > > Hm... there IS a hidden one! > > Tcl core still uses MT-unsafe gethostbyname. If we'd to use the > gethostbyname as well, no matter how protected we have made it > within our process, the chances are we'd end up trampling on > each other feet. > > On the short term I prefer this one. On the mid term I will replace > the gethostbyname calls in Tcl core with something like dns.c in > NS today.
Groovy.
