src/: Separate context state into parts for the type itself and its parent.

[adns.git] / src / adns.h

diff --git a/src/adns.h b/src/adns.h
index a29b568f33b8061de88e54b3883eb9d914f61557..a9039346324cbe865f43473f6460ba0bb225c907 100644 (file)
--- a/src/adns.h
+++ b/src/adns.h
@@ -1,16 +1,17 @@
 /*
  * adns.h
- * - adns user-visible API (single-threaded, without any locking)
+ * - adns user-visible API
  */
 /*
  *
  *  This file is
- *    Copyright (C) 1997-2000 Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>
+ *    Copyright (C) 1997-2000,2003,2006 Ian Jackson
  *
  *  It is part of adns, which is
- *    Copyright (C) 1997-2000 Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>
- *    Copyright (C) 1999-2000 Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
- *  
+ *    Copyright (C) 1997-2000,2003,2006 Ian Jackson
+ *    Copyright (C) 1999-2000,2003,2006 Tony Finch
+ *    Copyright (C) 1991 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
+ *
  *  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  *  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  *  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
@@ -400,6 +401,18 @@ typedef struct {
  *  requested.
  */
 
+/* Threads:
+ *  adns does not use any static modifiable state, so it
+ *   is safe to call adns_init several times and then use the
+ *   resulting adns_states concurrently.
+ *  However, it is NOT safe to make simultaneous calls into
+ *   adns using the same adns_state; a single adns_state must be used
+ *   only by one thread at a time.  You can solve this problem by
+ *   having one adns_state per thread, or if that isn't feasible, you
+ *   could maintain a pool of adns_states.  Unfortunately neither of
+ *   these approaches has optimal performance.
+ */
+
 int adns_init(adns_state *newstate_r, adns_initflags flags,
              FILE *diagfile /*0=>stderr*/);