Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 14:21:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Joe Groff <ognir@humboldt1.com> To: bmcgover@cisco.com Cc: dan@trinsec.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gethostbyaddr() and threads. Message-ID: <199908092121.OAA21266@home.humboldt1.com> In-Reply-To: <199908092104.RAA06010@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com>
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---Brian McGovern said: > [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 > Couldn't this be easily fixed? I haven't looked at the source yet, but I believe you could replaced the static buffers with a dynamically-allocated list of buffers, with one for each thread using the gethost functions. Or perhaps you could just eliminate all the static stuff altogether? -Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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