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Hi

I have an application that is running on Linux 2.0.30, AIX 4.1,
Digital UNIX 3.2, Windows NT 4.0 and OpenVMS (5.5 and 6.2 with
DCE threads). This app is threaded using pthreads on all platforms
except VMS that has DCE threads. The pthread support on AIX and
DU is a little bit ancient (draft 4 and 7) but it is working quite
good now with interplatform data exchange over multiple threads.

There were a problem with the getXbyY routines on AIX that I solved
by using the AIX libc_r.a library. From what I understand, these are
included in glibc 2 on Linux. Is this correct ? I have (not yet) had
any reentrancy problem on Linux, but since I prefer to do things the
"correct way", I would like to use the getXbyY_r instead.

I downloaded glibc-2.0.4 today, but there is no manpages included that
describes these calls. From what I can see in the netdb.h file, there
is libc support for them, BUT my problem is that the argument lists
for ex getservbyname_r is different from the one on AIX.

So my question(s) are; is there a standard for the _r routines ? The
arguments for getservbyname_r are

extern int getservbyname_r __P ((
__const char *__name, \ Same, no fuzz here
__const char *__proto,\ Ok
struct servent *__result_buf, \ Ptr to normal servent, ok
char *__buf, PTR TO SOMETHING. WHAT ?
size_t __buflen, \ Size of this unknown buffer !
struct servent **__result\ Another ptr to a servent ptr ???
);

The AIX declaration is

extern int getservbyname_r(
const char *name, Same as above
const char *proto, Ok
struct servent *servptr, Ok
struct servent_data *serv_data This is another AIX structure !
);

#ifdef _THREAD_SAFE
struct servent_data { /* should be considered opaque */
FILE *serv_fp;
char line[_MAXLINELEN];
char *serv_aliases[_MAXALIASES];
int _serv_stayopen;
char *current;
int currentlen;
void *_serv_reserv1; /* reserved for future use */
void *_serv_reserv2; /* reserved for future use */
};
#endif /* _THREAD_SAFE */

Can I assume that "*__buf" is a pointer to a similliar structure ?
Do I have to build the structure myself, or is it enough to pass a
pointer ? Do the pointer need to be initialised ? etc etc.

I would be very grateful If someone can help me understand these new
calls.

Thanx in advance

Anders

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