Joe Groff wrote:
>
> ---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?
Probably the way POSIX specifies, which would certainly be *our* target.
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