Re: Document about threads

2000-08-25 Thread Greg Thompson
>From: "Bryan K. Ogawa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >If anyone who knows about the state of the FreeBSD threads implementation >could go through it and check it for factual errors, missing bits, etc. >then that would be great. in your section about common reentrant extensions, you mention the IPv6 api

RE: threadsafe name resolution

2000-08-09 Thread Greg Thompson
>From: Charles Randall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Is there a reason that ADNS won't work for this? > >http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/adns/ in addition to the other reasons mentioned, it won't work for me because it's not a part of the os. as an application developer, i'd expect the basic s

threadsafe name resolution

2000-08-09 Thread Greg Thompson
i've just received confirmation from the author of the KAME resolution code that it isn't at all thread safe: >Sure. As noted in name6.c, thread related stuff is not implemented yet. >Since our resolver code based on bind4 doesn't aware thread safeness, >all I can do now would be only putting m

getipnodebyname

2000-07-26 Thread Greg Thompson
hackers, i have a multithreaded app that makes heavy use of sockets. i'm seeing a deadlock that looks like it's coming from getipnodebyname. it's my understanding that this guy is supposed to be threadsafe, but comments like this one in libc/net/getaddrinfo.c make me wonder: * Issues to be

odd accept(2) behavior

2000-07-25 Thread Greg Thompson
hackers, i'm seeing some fairly odd behavior from accept(2) when the connecting socket goes away at just the right time. the timing is fairly funky, so i don't know if i can easily whip up a repro for this, but what i'm seeing is: accept returns a positive value (ie: not an error), but sets t

Re: rtld problem

2000-07-18 Thread Greg Thompson
>From: John Polstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Greg Thompson ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > i'm having trouble with the runtime linker. > >What version of FreeBSD? mortal sin #1. oops. 4.0-2714-STABLE. >Is

rtld problem

2000-07-18 Thread Greg Thompson
hackers, i'm having trouble with the runtime linker. it seems like a bug, but perhaps there's something mystical i'm supposed to do to make this work. the short version of what i'm seeing is this: my app references symbols in a shared lib. the shared lib uses symbols in another shared lib.