From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29975 invoked by alias); 9 Jan 2007 04:18:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 29964 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Jan 2007 04:18:22 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from snape.ecoscentric.com (HELO snape.ecoscentric.com) (212.13.207.199) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 04:18:17 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by snape.ecoscentric.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81101DC806E; Tue, 9 Jan 2007 04:18:14 +0000 (GMT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ecoscentric.com Received: from snape.ecoscentric.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (snape.ecoscentric.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id OhV0lX0O905x; Tue, 9 Jan 2007 04:18:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (snape.ecoscentric.com [212.13.207.199]) by snape.ecoscentric.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 481FCDC8059; Tue, 9 Jan 2007 04:18:11 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <45A31782.9070101@eCosCentric.com> Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 04:18:00 -0000 From: Jonathan Larmour User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.8-1.1.fc3.4.legacy (X11/20060515) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff CC: ecos-maintainers@ecos.sourceware.org Subject: Re: very old getaddrinfo manpage References: <20070109034435.GA55439@kconline.com> In-Reply-To: <20070109034435.GA55439@kconline.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact ecos-maintainers-help@ecos.sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-maintainers-owner@ecos.sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-01/txt/msg00001.txt.bz2 Jeff wrote: > A google search for "getaddrinfo example" showed > http://ecos.sourceware.org/docs-2.0/ref/net-common-tcpip-manpages-getaddrinfo.html > as the 4th item. In it the manpage is dated 1995 and claims that > getaddrinfo is not thread-safe. Actually it claims the implementation is not thread-safe, which is a bit different. If someone thinks they're using the same implementation as a random search result page, then that isn't good. > I'm not familiar with Ecos in any way, > shape, or form, but I'm curious: Are you really using such an old > library? If not, the prevalence of this page in google is a real > disservice to unsuspecting newcomers of socket programming and could use > a bit of updating. We can't help what google archives. Those are the docs associated with the eCos 2.0 release, and so will not be changing. Although as it happens this line is still in the docs, and the current getaddrinfo() is thread-safe, so I will remove it. Jifl -- eCosCentric http://www.eCosCentric.com/ The eCos and RedBoot experts Company legal info, address and number: http://www.ecoscentric.com/legal ------["The best things in life aren't things."]------ Opinions==mine