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From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
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Subject: Re: gethostbyaddr() and threads.
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Dan Moschuk <dan@trinsec.com> wrote:
>
>A quicker fix would be just to enclose those global variables in
>mutexes.

God, no. The resolver is already stupidly unparallelizable -- there's
no need to make it thread-resistant too.

Tony.
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