Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1999 17:04:45 -0400 From: Brian McGovern <bmcgover@cisco.com> To: dan@trinsec.com Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gethostbyaddr() and threads. Message-ID: <199908092104.RAA06010@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com>
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[snip] gethostbyaddr... actually, most of the gethostby* functions... are not thread safe. They all use a static buffer in the library. Therefore, with threads, if you don't take precautions, I'd expect your results to be odd. -Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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