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pthreads and dns
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anton Opperman)
Wed Apr 28 11:25:05 1999
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 16:46:32 +0200
From: Anton Opperman <aopperma@fgh.co.za>
To: pthreads@MIT.EDU
Hi Chris,
I'm not quite sure about the exact status of the pthread project, but I'm
playing around with 1.60 beta6 (seemed like the latest version).
I'm trying to build a cache of dns entries for a performance related
tool I'm writing, and use gethostbyname/_r to get the required entries.
In my current config, I use a netsvc.conf file to force local lookup
first, some entries are not in the dns ... If I use the OS gethostbyname,
this works fine, but the functions are not thread safe. If however I use
the pthread version, it doesn't look at local entries at all.
Will this change in future? Is anything still happening with pthreads,
seems like quite some time since anything changed? Is there a newer
version?
Thx,
Anton Opperman
aopperman@fgh.co.za
