Re: gethostbyaddr() and threads.

[Joe Groff]

---Brian McGovern said:
> [snip]
> 
> gethostbyaddr... actually, most of the gethostby* functions... are not
> thread safe. They all use a static buffer in the library.
> 
> Therefore, with threads, if you don't take precautions, I'd expect your
> results to be odd.
>     -Brian
> 
Couldn't this be easily fixed? I haven't looked at the source yet, but I
believe you could replaced the static buffers with a dynamically-allocated list
of buffers, with one for each thread using the gethost functions. Or perhaps
you could just eliminate all the static stuff altogether?

-Joe




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