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echo: os2prog
to: Arjen Lentz
from: Keith Bennett
date: 1994-10-04 15:02:16
subject: TCP/IP gethostbyname() dangerous?

I *am* copying the returned data.  The point is, without using critical
sections, there is a possibility that the data will be changed by another
thread between the time I call gethostbyname() and the time I copy the
data.  Admittedly only nanoseconds, but existent nonetheless.
 
- Keith

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