Ping Re: [PATCH] Make bindresvport() function to multithread-safe

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 9/17/2012 3:44 PM, Roland McGrath wrote:
> bindresvport has never been thread-safe before and AFAIK no other system
> that has the function makes it thread-safe.  Like all functions, if it's
> not specifically documented and being thread-safe, it isn't.  I don't see
> the rationale for requiring bindresvport to be thread-safe now.
> 

I agree. If there is no known implementation that requires it to be thread-safe
then we should not either. It slows down applications that properly ensure
that only one thread uses bindresvport.

Cheers,
Carlos.
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