---Steve Tarkalson said: > this is solved by one of two methods: > 1-) require the caller of gethostbyaddr() to supply a pointer to > a hostent struct which will be filled. > or 2-) the library uses thread specific storage which is re-used in > each call. > You could malloc() a struct hostent for each call to gethostby*(), each time registering the hostent in some list along with the thread's PID. If the same thread calls gethostby*, use the same buffer, or allocate a new one if another thread calls it. Have a static function be called atexit to free all the mallocs.
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