Messages in this thread | | | From | "David Schwartz" <> | Subject | RE: send(), sendmsg(), sendto() not thread-safe | Date | Mon, 15 May 2006 19:47:03 -0700 |
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> I discovered that in some cases, send(), sendmsg(), and sendto() are not > thread-safe. Although the man page for these functions does not specify > whether these functions are supposed to be thread-safe, my reading of the > POSIX/SUSv3 specification tells me that they should be. I traced the > problem to tcp_sendmsg(). I was very curious about this issue, so I wrote > up a small page to describe in more detail my findings. You can > find it at: > http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/people/marksmith/sendmsg.html . > > Thanks, > Mark A. Smith
You are confusing thread-safety with atomicity.
DS
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