Re: Strange TODO

> 
> Thus spake Frediano: 
> 
> > How to fix all these problems?? 
> > - we have no safe source for servent_data (private libc 
> header is not
> > installed).  - we can implement a thread-safe getservbyname locking
> > _servent_mutex directly and call getservbyname_r (not that 
> clean) and
> > endservent_r (avoid leaks). - use getaddrinfo, is it 
> thread-safe under
> > NetBSD ??
> 
> It turns out we're going about this all wrong.  Instead of 
> getservbyname_r
> et al., we should be using getnameinfo/getaddrinfo.  Those should be
> threadsafe on any platform, and are standard.  
> 
> Do you think it's feasible to abandon getservbyname_r?  Do we 
> support any
> platform on which getservbyname_r is implemented but 
> getaddrinfo is not? 
> 
> --jkl
> 

Yes, we can do. The problem is that some getaddrinfo implementations (FreeBSD or NetBSD if
I remember) are NOT threadsafe !! But well... perhaps nowadays these platforms are quite
old...

freddy77

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