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From: Dan Moschuk <dan@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: Multithread safe gethostbyname() ?
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| > 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.

That won't work either, since, if I remember correctly, the returned
struct hostent is static.

-Dan
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Dan Moschuk (TFreak!dan@freebsd.org)
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