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* Make the resolver(3) and many associated interfaces much more reentrant.green2004-02-251-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The getaddrinfo(3), getipnodebyname(3) and resolver(3) can coincide now with what should be totally reentrant, and h_errno values will now be preserved correctly, but this does not affect interfaces such as gethostbyname(3) which are still mostly non-reentrant. In all of these relevant functions, the thread-safety has been pushed down as far as it seems possible right now. This means that operations that are selected via nsdispatch(3) (i.e. files, yp, dns) are protected still under global locks that getaddrinfo(3) defines, but where possible the locking is greatly reduced. The most noticeable improvement is that multiple DNS lookups can now be run at the same time, and this shows major improvement in performance of DNS-lookup threaded programs, and solves the "Mozilla tab serialization" problem. No single-threaded applications need to be recompiled. Multi-threaded applications that reference "_res" to change resolver(3) options will need to be recompiled, and ones which reference "h_errno" will also if they desire the correct h_errno values. If the applications already understood that _res and h_errno were not thread-safe and had their own locking, they will see no performance improvement but will not actually break in any way. Please note that when NSS modules are used, or when nsdispatch(3) defaults to adding any lookups of its own to the individual libc _nsdispatch() calls, those MUST be reentrant as well.
* * Add stubs for pthread_cond_broadcast.dfr2002-11-011-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | * Fix typos in rwlock stubs. * Add pthread_XXX counterparts to the _pthread_XXX stubs which libraries like libX11 can use to ensure thread-safety without requiring the use of a thread library. Submitted by: Terry Lambert (pthread_cond_broadcast) Reviewed by: deischen
* Bring in a hybrid of SunSoft's transport-independent RPC (TI-RPC) andalfred2001-03-191-0/+130
associated changes that had to happen to make this possible as well as bugs fixed along the way. Bring in required TLI library routines to support this. Since we don't support TLI we've essentially copied what NetBSD has done, adding a thin layer to emulate direct the TLI calls into BSD socket calls. This is mostly from Sun's tirpc release that was made in 1994, however some fixes were backported from the 1999 release (supposedly only made available after this porting effort was underway). The submitter has agreed to continue on and bring us up to the 1999 release. Several key features are introduced with this update: Client calls are thread safe. (1999 code has server side thread safe) Updated, a more modern interface. Many userland updates were done to bring the code up to par with the recent RPC API. There is an update to the pthreads library, a function pthread_main_np() was added to emulate a function of Sun's threads library. While we're at it, bring in NetBSD's lockd, it's been far too long of a wait. New rpcbind(8) replaces portmap(8) (supporting communication over an authenticated Unix-domain socket, and by default only allowing set and unset requests over that channel). It's much more secure than the old portmapper. Umount(8), mountd(8), mount_nfs(8), nfsd(8) have also been upgraded to support TI-RPC and to support IPV6. Umount(8) is also fixed to unmount pathnames longer than 80 chars, which are currently truncated by the Kernel statfs structure. Submitted by: Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch> Manpage review: ru Secure RPC implemented by: wpaul
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