---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?
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