On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 12:43:08PM +0000, Vinay Kumar wrote: > Hi All, > Is 'c-ares' api 'ares_gethostbyname()' is thread safe function?The > 'gethostbyname' function is obsolete. There exists a reentrant version > gethostbyname_r(). > Similarly is there any reentrant version of 'ares_gethostbyname()'? or > 'ares_gethostbyname()' itself is reentrant function? > Regards,Vinay
As long as each thread uses its own ares context that I would say yes.. I'm not the biggest thread expert around, though.
