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List:       openbsd-tech
Subject:    Re: gethostbyname_r
From:       "Corey Brenner" <coreybrenner () hotmail ! com>
Date:       1999-04-26 8:18:04
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> POSIX p1003.1g DOES specify getaddrinfo(), which will do everything
> that gethostbyname() will do and has an interface that is thread-
> safe.

Seems to me there should be a way (using a pthread_attr_t, maybe?)
to implement a thread-specific opaque data area for netdb lookups.
I believe that's what Digital et al. have done.

--Corey

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