FreeTDS Development Group

["ZIGLIO Frediano" <Frediano.Ziglio AT vodafone.com>]

> 
> FWIW, gethostbyname() is threadsafe on Mac OS X 10.2 and later.
> 
> <http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2053.html>
> 

Good! Also they introduced getpwuid_r so if we have getpwuid_r
gethostbyname is thread-safe. However what they mean by "gethostbyname()
family" ?? Even getservbyname? All resolve functions? I updated CVS
version to use getipnodebyaddr/getipnodebyname if available (it's always
thread-safe). However I have problems with getservbyname. I used
getaddrinfo if getservbyname_r is not available. I don't know if this
function is really thread-safe (it should but in man page the
implementation is not thread-safe... very bad!) however I don't think
many people will use that function. I compiled successfully on Mac OS X
10.2 (sourceforge) however I didn't test it... Is anyone with Mac OS X
or *BSD want to test it...

> I do have ODBC installed because OS X installs it for you. But I have 
> done zero setup on it. I have no idea how you account for 
> that. Apple's 
> done almost no documentation on it. (And "almost" is being generous, 
> unless I'm mistaken.)
> 

Current code should configure unixODBC/iODBC while testing however I
don't know which implementation Mac OS X use...

freddy77