On Mon, Jan 30, Mike Becher wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Thorsten Kukuk wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 05, Mike Becher wrote: > > The second problem is that from gethostbyname only the first IP is > > used. This was already broken in the old version, but now it depends > > on if the IPv4 or the IPv6 address is the first one which is returned, > > pure luck if this is really working. > > getaddrinfo should be used instead. > I know thread safety and reentrants are two different things and if one > function is thread safe and/or reentrant depends on usage of function > that are also thread safe and/or reentrant. thread safe and reentrant are the same. If a function is reentrant, it is thread safe, too. If a function is thread safe, it is reentrant, too. Currently I'm rewriting this parts which use convert_hostname_r to use getaddrinfo, which is reentrant and which will check for all known IPs, not only the first one. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ kukuk@xxxxxxx SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Maxfeldstr. 5 D-90409 Nuernberg -------------------------------------------------------------------- Key fingerprint = A368 676B 5E1B 3E46 CFCE 2D97 F8FD 4E23 56C6 FB4B _______________________________________________ Pam-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list
