Theodore Tso <tytso@xxxxxxx> 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html