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Re: gethostbyname_r
- From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna at efn dot org>
- To: cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 17:09:46 -0700
- Subject: Re: gethostbyname_r
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On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 02:52:58PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 01:35:44PM -0400, Richard Campbell wrote:
> >Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >>AFAIK, cygwin's gethostbyname is thread safe in all cases.
> >
> >Since I was referencing you for the proposition that it was not thread
> >safe in the case of resolving a numeric IP,
> >(http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-05/msg00182.html ) I'll certainly
> >defer to you.
>
> The thread-safeness problem was fixed in February of this year.
And I never even got a tshirt :(