Re: Libification project (SoC)

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Mar 19, 2007, 03:55 UTC
Message-ID: <20070319035526.GJ20658@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070319025636.GE11371@thunk.org>

Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:

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> Berkely got it horribly wrong when it tried to start with the "small
> and beautiful" functions that were non-reentrant, and we've been
> paying the price ever since.  Do we really want to support two
> versions of the API forever?  Is it really that hard to support a
> reentrant API from the beginning?  I'd submit the answer to these two
> questions are no, and no, respectively.

I agree entirely, for every reason mentioned by Ted (including those not quoted). ;-)

I learned about gethostbyname after gethostbyname_r was already introduced, so I have always been asking myself "uhhhhh, why do we have gethostbyname?". ;-)

-- 
Shawn.

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