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To: dan@trinsec.com
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Subject: Re: gethostbyaddr() and threads.
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1999 17:04:45 -0400
From: Brian McGovern <bmcgover@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


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