Re: HEADS UP: new NSS

From: Martin Blapp <mb_at_imp.ch>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 20:24:29 +0200 (CEST)
Hi Jacques,

>Other nsdispatch consumers will be updated once this has settled a
>bit.  Notably, the resolver-related routines (gethostby*, getaddrinfo)
>still need to be updated and required quite a bit of work.

IMHO threads-safe versions of gethostby* are very important. getaddrinfo
is already threads-safe. Do you plan to do this yourself ? And if so,
before 5.1/5.2 ?

What about the nsscache implemenation we talked once ? I guess with
the work you have done this is a lot easier, right ?

Martin

Martin Blapp, <mb_at_imp.ch> <mbr_at_FreeBSD.org>
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