> In muc.lists.freebsd.hackers, you wrote:
>
> Is there a MT-safe implementation of gethostbyname() in FreeBSD (3.4/4.0)?
>
> On Solaris there is gethostbyname_r(). Calling gethostbyname() with in
> two threads cause both threads to block.
No. :( Until we get one you can work around it by using a mutex around
calls to gethost* to allow only 1 thread to call them at a time.
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