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Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 05:38:35 -0700
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Subject: Re: pthreads and sockets - Cannot register window class error
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Jacek Trzmiel wrote:

> void test()
> {
>     /* go find out about the desired host machine */
>     struct hostent *he = gethostbyname(HOST);
>     if (he == 0) {
>         perror("gethostbyname");
>         exit(1);
>     }

Just a wild guess, but gethostbyname() is probably not reentrant and
can't be called from threads like that.

Brian

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