Re: reentrant variants of gethostbyname2/gethostbyaddr
This is a discussion on Re: reentrant variants of gethostbyname2/gethostbyaddr within the mailing.openbsd.tech forums, part of the OpenBSD category; --> On 3/6/06, Hannah Schroeter <hannah@schlund.de> wrote: > >you can make a gethostbyaddr_r by using a mutex and memcpy to ...
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 Re: reentrant variants of gethostbyname2/gethostbyaddr On 3/6/06, Hannah Schroeter <hannah@schlund.de> wrote: > >you can make a gethostbyaddr_r by using a mutex and memcpy to passed storage. > > I had ideas like that already. > > But... IIRC one would have to copy several strings, keeping track > of things. Correct? > > And a big disadvantage is creating a big bottleneck, if the name > server responds slowly. i don't think the backend supports threads particularly well, so wrappers are probably your best bet for now.      |
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