[Python-Dev] Re: Re: mysterious hangs in socket code

Aahz aahz@pythoncraft.com
Fri, 20 Sep 2002 13:02:55 -0400


On Fri, Sep 20, 2002, Mats Wichmann wrote:
> Martin:
>> 
>>I think that part is already settled: getaddrinfo, on Linux, is
>>thread-safe.
> 
> The latest Posix/Single UNIX spec in fact require getaddrinfo
> (and getnameinfo) to be thread-safe.

Thread-safe or thread-hot?  E.g., Python in the absence of releasing the
GIL is thread-safe but not thread-hot.
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