Re: [Sbcl-devel] memory-fault in sb-impl::read-from-c-string/latin-1

[Hannu K. <az...@ik...>]

Juho Snellman <js...@ik...> writes:

> Ah, when we were discussing this on IRC, you didn't mention the
> context :-)

Yeah, that's exactly what I was trying to do but paste.lisp.org
didn't work.

> That looks very much like a problem caused by gethostbyname not
> being threadsafe.

I actually suspected this at first but assumed the static area used
by gethostbyname must be thread local.  Big mistake.

> I've got an old patch for using
> gethostbyname_r instead on Linux, but it doesn't apply cleanly anymore
> (attached).

Thanks.  I'll see if I can get it to apply some day (within the
next year or so...)

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Hannu