Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 15:55:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Joe Groff <ognir@humboldt1.com> To: steve_tarkalson@hotmail.com Cc: bmcgover@cisco.com, dan@trinsec.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gethostbyaddr() and threads. Message-ID: <199908092255.PAA08129@home.humboldt1.com> In-Reply-To: <19990809224120.39659.qmail@hotmail.com>
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---Steve Tarkalson said: > 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. > You could malloc() a struct hostent for each call to gethostby*(), each time registering the hostent in some list along with the thread's PID. If the same thread calls gethostby*, use the same buffer, or allocate a new one if another thread calls it. Have a static function be called atexit to free all the mallocs. -Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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