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From: "Steve Tarkalson" <steve_tarkalson@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: gethostbyaddr() and threads.
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this is solved by one of two methods:
   1-) require the caller of gethostbyaddr() to supply a pointer to
       a hostent struct which will be filled.
or 2-) the library uses thread specific storage which is re-used in
       each call.


>From: Joe Groff <ognir@humboldt1.com>
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>Subject: Re: gethostbyaddr() and threads.
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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
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