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Re: pthreads and sockets - Cannot register window class error
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 05:38:35 -0700
- Subject: Re: pthreads and sockets - Cannot register window class error
- Organization: My own little world...
- References: <4098760F.CDB4F630@hot.pl>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Jacek Trzmiel wrote:
> void test()
> {
> /* go find out about the desired host machine */
> struct hostent *he = gethostbyname(HOST);
> if (he == 0) {
> perror("gethostbyname");
> exit(1);
> }
Just a wild guess, but gethostbyname() is probably not reentrant and
can't be called from threads like that.
Brian
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