From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 03:55:26 GMT
Subject: Re: Libification project (SoC)
Message-ID: <20070319035526.GJ20658@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070319025636.GE11371@thunk.org>

Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> 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.