On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 06:53:54AM -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > jerenkrantz 2002/08/15 23:53:54 > > Modified: docs/manual/developer thread_safety.html > Log: > Add note on c-client based on evidence from c-client mailing list archives > and, in particular, Mark Crispin's posts.
This is a particularly interesting case as Mark is pretty adamant that strtok() and gethostbyname() should be thread-safe and the fact that it isn't on most platforms doesn't persuade him to use strtok_r() or gethostbyname_r() if available. (Not that I disagree with him here - these *should* be thread-safe calls.) Regardless, someone brought up this exact question on the c-client list a few days ago in direct question to httpd-2.0, PHP, and c-client. The response (albeit not from Mark) was that c-client is thread-safe. However, nothing in the current c-client code base shows usage of a thread-safe strtok() or gethostbyname(), so I believe that post to c-client list is in error and Mark's earlier comments in his posts still stand - that is, c-client itself is thread-safe, but its C library usage is almost certainly not thread-safe. -- justin
