[krbdev.mit.edu #6569] krb5-1.7 hangs on Solaris

[Tom Yu via RT]

" Arlene Berry  via RT" <rt-comment at krbdev.mit.edu> writes:

> We're seeing hangs on Solaris because krb5-1.7 uses res_init and
> res_search from multiple threads. On Solaris, those functions are not
> thread safe.  To fix it we changed krb5int_dns_init to call res_init
> only once and added a mutex around res_search:

Interesting... what release of Solaris?  I thought that the
thread-safe res_ninit() were available on modern Solaris releases.