reentrant resolver

Joel Sherrill joel.sherrill at OARcorp.com
Tue Apr 23 00:58:25 UTC 2002



"Vyacheslav V. Burdjanadze" wrote:
> 
> Is there some thread/task-safe DNS resolver intended to use with RTEMS?
> I tried to use that one which
> comes with libnetworking but it seemed to use select()/poll() and uses
> static buffers to decode NS replies.

Without looking at the code, I only see two easy possibilities:

  + protect it with a mutex
  + add a _r version of the function that takes a working 
    buffer as an argument and make the existing function 
    a wrapper that declares the needed buffer.

> Thanks.
> --
> 
> - " Why do you call this software 'beta' ? "
> - " Cuz it beta than nothin' ! "

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