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Public bug reported:

gethostbyname() shouldn't be called from multiple threads in Linux. As
it may return pointer to static data that will be overwritten by the
next call. (And based on the few stacktraces I've seen lately it is
overwritten.) Windows seems to allocate the data for gethostbyname from
thread local storage, so that will probably explain why it took so long
to be reported.

** Affects: dcplusplus
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: linuxdcpp
     Importance: Medium
     Assignee: Razzloss (razzloss)
         Status: Confirmed


** Tags: core crash

** Also affects: dcplusplus
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Socket::resolve isn't thread safe
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/590359
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Status in DC++: New
Status in Linux DC++: Confirmed

Bug description:
gethostbyname() shouldn't be called from multiple threads in Linux. As it may return pointer to static data that will be overwritten by the next call. (And based on the few stacktraces I've seen lately it is overwritten.) Windows seems to allocate the data for gethostbyname from thread local storage, so that will probably explain why it took so long to be reported.