On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Jean-Philippe Barrette-LaPierre wrote:

> I allmost finished the implementaion of the sharing DNS thing. However
> there's missing thing to get thread-safe: a function that duplicate a
> "Curl_dns_entry *".

Eh. Why do we need to duplicate something that is shared?

> The problem is with the hostcache_prune function, the function that clean
> all outdated hostcache entry. At this time it's using the inuse variable,
> but it's not thread-safe, so I'll need a dns_entry duplicate function.

Now, please tell me why the 'inuse' struct field is not thread safe? As long
as we access it while having the mutex, it should be perfectly OK. And then
we can share the structs fine. Or am I wrong?

> P.S. I don't have a deepfull knowledge of the addrinfo structure(to be
> portable), so I can't do the duplicate function myself.

We do not want to walk down that path. We simply must do it another way.

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl, cURL, Curl, CURL. Groks URLs.
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