On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, D J Hawkey Jr wrote:
Without checking, I'll take your word for it. But if so, what are they
doing in libc_r? I thought that was for re-entrant/thread-safe functions?
Is there an appreciable difference between re-entrant and thread-safe?
My understanding is that libc_r is
Thus spake D J Hawkey Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Is there an appreciable difference between re-entrant and thread-safe?
``Thread-safe'' just means that multiple threads can call the
routine without something blowing up due to a race. ``Reentrant''
means that the routine is thread-safe, AND that
Hi,
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 19:56:46 -0600 (CST)
D J Hawkey Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
hawkeyd In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
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On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 07:18:54AM -0600, D J Hawkey Jr wrote:
I can't imagine what Moz is doing within it's DNS code, even
On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 07:56:46PM -0600, D J Hawkey Jr wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
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On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 07:18:54AM -0600, D J Hawkey Jr wrote:
I can't imagine what Moz is doing within it's DNS code, even with the
serialized DNS lookups. If
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On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 07:18:54AM -0600, D J Hawkey Jr wrote:
I can't imagine what Moz is doing within it's DNS code, even with the
serialized DNS lookups. If nslookup replies within fractions of a second,
why doesn't Moz??
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
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as a matter of fact gethost*() family of calls is not thread-safe in
FreeBSD.
You can search FreeBSD PRs and mozilla's bugzilla for mozilla DNS to see
previous discussions and efforts.
Without checking, I'll take your word for
Hi all.
If this isn't the right forum, please excuse me, and direct me to the
correct group.
Has anyone managed to hack a recent Mozilla release (say, 1.0 or later)
to do async/threaded DNS lookups? Since gethostbyname() and related
functions are in libc_r, I'm assuming it's doable.
I've
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 07:18:54AM -0600, D J Hawkey Jr wrote:
I can't imagine what Moz is doing within it's DNS code, even with the
serialized DNS lookups. If nslookup replies within fractions of a second,
why doesn't Moz??
Take a look at look at the getaddrinfo(3) man page and then try
as a matter of fact gethost*() family of calls is not thread-safe in
FreeBSD.
You can search FreeBSD PRs and mozilla's bugzilla for mozilla DNS to see
previous discussions and efforts.
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