Re: HEADS UP: new NSS

From: Jacques A. Vidrine <nectar_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 20:11:52 -0500
On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 08:24:29PM +0200, Martin Blapp wrote:
> 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 ?

Yes, before 5.1.  I'm already using some modifications for it on my
system, but the code is very scary and frankly I think it needs to be
reworked.

Funny how I'd rather break getpwent than resolver-related stuff :-)
 
> What about the nsscache implemenation we talked once ? I guess with
> the work you have done this is a lot easier, right ?

Yes, we pretty much have to have standard interfaces before we can
have a cache.

Cheers,
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