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Date:      Wed, 12 Apr 2000 07:36:19 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        ming@yahoo-inc.com
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Multithread safe gethostbyname() ?
Message-ID:  <200004121136.HAA32335@server.baldwin.cx>
In-Reply-To: <200004120538.WAA17491@sharmas.dhs.org>

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> In muc.lists.freebsd.hackers, you wrote:
> 
> Is there a MT-safe implementation of gethostbyname() in FreeBSD (3.4/4.0)?
> 
> On Solaris there is gethostbyname_r().  Calling gethostbyname() with in
> two threads cause both threads to block.

No. :(  Until we get one you can work around it by using a mutex around
calls to gethost* to allow only 1 thread to call them at a time.

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