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Re: (ITS#3409) libldap_r optimization



At 02:02 PM 12/10/2004, ando@sys-net.it wrote:
>Maybe we can just hide the mutexes behind a #ifndef 
>IS_GETADDRINFO_THREAD_SAFE, and manually define it where the libc 
>documentation declares it to be thread safe.  All in all, it looks like 
>something regular users can live without, while aware users should be 
>allowed to take advantage of. 

I haven't a problem with providing an undocumented macro...
even though I think folks will enable it when they likely
shouldn't.  I note that some getaddrinfo implementations
are not as thread safe as their manual pages might suggest.

Kurt