Great. Then it seems like it is time to make the move into the 21st century.
john On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Alan M. Carroll < a...@network-geographics.com> wrote: > I would presume that applies to the functions documented on the page, not > getaddrinfo which is mentioned only in passing. This is reenforced by > getaddrinfo having its own documentation page. > > Just for amusement value, here's a couple of bug reports of > gethostbyaddr_r() crashing under load - > > Tuesday, March 27, 2012, 5:10:57 PM, you wrote: > > > Search for the line: > > > "The lookup functions above all have one in common: they are not > reentrant > > and therefore unusable in multi-threaded applications. Therefore provides > > the GNU C library a new set of functions which can be used in this > context." > > > Perhaps it operates differently if _POSIX_SOURCE is defined or this > > documentation is old although the former doesn't seem to be the case. > > >
