On 12-Apr-00 Dan Moschuk wrote:
>
>| > Is there a MT-safe implementation of gethostbyname() in FreeBSD (3.4/4.0)?
>| >
>| > On Solaris there is gethostbyname_r(). Calling gethostbyname() with in
>| > two threads cause both threads to block.
>|
>| No. :( Until we get one you can work around it by using a mutex around
>| calls to gethost* to allow only 1 thread to call them at a time.
>
> That won't work either, since, if I remember correctly, the returned
> struct hostent is static.
Yeah, so you would have to copy them to a new hostent while holding the
lock.
> -Dan
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