1.5.9-1: socket() appears NOT to be thread-safe

Thu Apr 15 17:41:00 GMT 2004

On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 12:14:55AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 11:16:03AM +0800, Enzo Michelangeli wrote:
>>What I can do for the time being is to provide the testcase that Corinna
>>asked for (attached below). Here are the results:
>>I can duplicate the behavior noted here.
>>I sent Corinna a patch in private email. I'm not thrilled with it but
>it does seem to alleviate the problem.
>>The problem seems to be that winsock's socket is not multi-thread safe.
>That is very hard for me to believe but the strace output seems to
>confirm it.

Corinna showed me that this was a problem in my autoload code rather than
a problem with winsock. That's comforting. I guess I've grown too quick
to judge Windows.
I've checked in a fix and am regenerating a snapshot. The fix consisted of
deleting a few lines of code so that's always nice...
Thanks for the test case. It helped a lot in tracking this problem down.
cgf
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