Brian E Gallew, which were improved and adapted to OpenSSL 0.9.4 by
Laszlo Kovacs of HP. Both have kindly given permission to include
the patches in the Python distribution. Final formatting by GvR.
the right variant of gethostbyname_r for us, since not all Linuxes are
equal in this respect. Reported by Laurent Pointal.
(2) On BeOS, Chris Herborth reports that instead of arpa/inet.h you
must include net/netdb.h to get the inet_ntoa() and inet_addr()
prototypes.
data struct before calling gethostby{name,addr}_r(); (2) ignore the
3/5/6 args determinations made by the configure script and switch on
platform identifiers instead:
AIX, OSF have 3 args
Sun, SGI have 5 args
Linux has 6 args
On all other platforms, undef HAVE_GETHOSTBYNAME_R altogether.
- Use HAVE_GETHOSTBYNAME_R_6_ARG instead of testing for Linux and
glibc2.
- If gethostbyname takes 3 args, undefine HAVE_GETHOSTBYNAME_R --
don't know what code should be used.
- New symbol USE_GETHOSTBYNAME_LOCK defined iff the lock should be used.
- Modify the gethostbyaddr() code to also hold on to the lock until
after it is safe to release, overlapping with the Python lock.
(Note: I think that it could in theory be possible that Python code
executed while gethostbyname_lock is held could attempt to reacquire
the lock -- e.g. in a signal handler or destructor. I will simply say
"don't do that then.")
Here's a patch to fix the race condition, which wasn't fixed by Rob's
patch. It holds the gethostbyname lock until the results are copied out,
which means that this lock and the Python global lock are held at the same
time. This shouldn't be a problem as long as the gethostbyname lock is
always acquired when the global lock is not held.
gethostbyaddr(). (Plain gethostbyname() returns only the IP address.)
This moves the code shared by gethostbyaddr() and gethostbyname_ex()
to a subroutine.
Original patch by Dan Stromberg; some tweaks by GvR.
so that our #ifdef test has the wrong effect. Substitute hardcoded
values for some important symbols (but not for the whole range -- some
are pretty obscure so it's not worth it).
(1) Use PyErr_NewException("module.class", NULL, NULL) to create the
exception object.
(2) Remove all calls to Py_FatalError(); instead, return or
ignore the errors -- the import code now checks PyErr_Occurred()
after calling a module's init function, so it's no longer a
fatal error for the initialization to fail.
Also did some small cleanups, e.g. removed unnecessary test for
"already initialized" from initfpectl(), and unified
initposix()/initnt().
I haven't checked this very thoroughly, so while the changes are
pretty trivial -- beware of untested code!
Guido van Rossum
Barry Warsaw