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Subject: Re: thread safe functions missing ... ?
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from the 5.x man page:

BUGS
     The current implementation is not thread-safe.


On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Dag-Erling [iso-8859-1] Sm=F8rgrav wrote:

> "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
> > Your gethostbyname() is _not_ thread-safe
>
> Use getaddrinfo(3) instead.
>
> DES
> --
> Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
>