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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:
>
>After quite an exhausting night (of all the ways I didn't want to spend my
>Sunday...) I've managed to track down a problem that has been frustrating me
>all night.  The problem exists with multiple threads calling gethostbyaddr()
>(not necessarily at the same time).  

src/lib/libc/net/gethostbydns.c seems to use a load of static
variables in a non-thread-safe fashion.

Tony.
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