Re: gethostbyaddr() and threads.

[Joe Groff]

---Louis A. Mamakos said:
>> 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.
> 
> Yuk!
> 
> If you're writing a multithreaded program, a slightly different API for
> gethostbyname() is likely to be the least of your worries.
> 
Yeah, that IS a horrible idea of mine. :) Changing the API should be a last
resort, though, since we don't want to introduce to many FreeBSDisms into the
already-fragmented-enough Unix world. 

Just a thought, how does Linux's GNU libc handle gethostby* in threaded apps?

-Joe




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