Re: Reentrant socket code ?

Matthias Urlichs (smurf@work.smurf.noris.de)
25 Jul 1997 18:24:58 +0200

Anders Östling <anders.ostling@neurope.ikea.com> writes:
>
> DCE threads). This app is threaded using pthreads on all platforms
glibc has LinuxThreads which behaves roughly POSIXish but uses kernel
clone, i.e. _real_ concurrency (if you have an SMP machine, anyway ;-).

> by using the AIX libc_r.a library. From what I understand, these are
> included in glibc 2 on Linux. Is this correct ? I have (not yet) had
Yes.

> I downloaded glibc-2.0.4 today, but there is no manpages included that
> describes these calls. From what I can see in the netdb.h file, there

There are info files. Don't ask me how complete they are, I don't like
info. :-/ (Does anybody have vi-like keymappings for it? ;-)

> I would be very grateful If someone can help me understand these new
> calls.
>
There's the libc-hackers@gnu.ai.mit.edu mailing list which may be helpful
wih this.