Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 May 2006 21:09:21 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: send(), sendmsg(), sendto() not thread-safe |
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On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 02:39:06PM -0700, Mark A Smith wrote: > > 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 .
Please don't confuse thread safety with atomicy, thanks.
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