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Subject: gethostbyname_r? thread-safety status in man pages?
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>Number:         18481
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       gethostbyname_r? thread-safety status in man pages?
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          wish
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed May 10 06:20:00 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:    Thu May 31 20:06:04 PDT 2001
>Last-Modified:  Thu May 31 20:06:16 PDT 2001
>Originator:     jan grant
>Release:        Various (2.2.8, 3.3-4, 4 stable)
>Organization:
university of bristol
>Environment:
>Description:
Request for enhancement, really.
1. gethostbyname isn't reentrant. Other platforms offer gethostbyname_r,
etc. Any chance of these?
2. there's no thread-safety status information in the man pages; it
would be really good to see this included.
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: dd 
State-Changed-When: Thu May 31 20:06:04 PDT 2001 
State-Changed-Why:  
Duplicate of 18824. 

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=18481 
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