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Re: patch 574400 (reentrancy)

From: James K. Lowden <jklowden AT speakeasy.org>
To: "TDS Development Group" <freetds AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: patch 574400 (reentrancy)
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 21:14:54 -0400

On Fri, 5 Jul 2002 16:56:54 -0400 (EDT), "Brian Bruns" <camber AT ais.org>
wrote:

> It appears there are at least 3 different ways to
> call gethostbyname_r() depending on platform. I've found an autoconf
> macro from Caolan McNamara (of wvWare fame) to handle that, but I'm
> wondering what dark secrets exist in gethostbyaddr_r, getservbyname_r,
> et al.

Yuck.

(NetBSD doesn't have a gethostbyaddr_r. I guess that's another approach.)

--jkl

patch 574400 (reentrancy), Brian Bruns, 07/05/2002
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