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Re: pthreads and sockets - Cannot register window class error


On Wed, 5 May 2004, Steve Thompson wrote:

> On Wed, 5 May 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> > Unless HOST is a numeric IP address, gethostbyname should be properly
> > reentrant.  The only time gethostbyname is not thread safe is when it is
> > resolving a numeric IP.
>
> I believe that gethostbyname(), since it is returning a pointer to a
> statically allocated structure, cannot be thread safe under any
> circumstances. I always wrap it with a mutex until I'm done with the
> hostent structure.

That's a good portable practice.  But, if your going to essentially call
cgf a lyer, please at least check the source.  He uses a thread specific
buffer to return that data.  It's obvious if you look.

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Brian Ford
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