[Iftop-users] mac os x 10.2.6 compile?

Paul Warren pdw at ex-parrot.com
Tue, 26 Aug 2003 10:53:24 +0100


On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 07:36:44PM +0100, Chris Lightfoot wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 05:41:30PM -0700, Siri Dhyan Singh wrote:
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > I'm trying to get 0.13 to compile and it gets to here and hangs.
> > 
> > configure: WARNING: using single-threaded resolver with gethostbyaddr
> >   Consider obtaining ARES or a machine with a working gethostbyaddr_r.
> 
> [ aside to Paul: Mac OS X, being BSD, has no thread-safe
>   way to resolve names. There is no need to act surprised
>   at this point. But maybe we should write a
>   Netscape-style forking asynchronous resolver? ]

I assume you are speaking of a different type of asynchronous resolver
to that found in Netscape 4.x which caused all windows to crash should
one window fail to resolve a host name?

Paul