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Re: getnameinfo(3) thread-safety



On Wed, 14 Aug 2013, Christos Zoulas wrote:

In article <1l7ljcq.aabx667531krM%manu%netbsd.org@localhost>,
Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
Hi

getnameinfo(3) man page says the function is not thread safe. What is
the preferred method for getting the name for an address stored in a
sockaddr_t, in a threaded program?

Ours is, IIRC. We could remove the restriction from the man page.

Or maybe update it to indicate that the restriction might still be needed for portability to other systems?


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