socket.gethostbyname() thread-safe?

[Michael Ströder]

Aahz Maruch wrote:
> 
> In article <3AD1ABD0.FB728F28 at stroeder.com>,
> Michael =?iso-8859-1?Q?Str=F6der?=  <michael at stroeder.com> wrote:
> >
> >Is socket.gethostbyname() thread-safe on all platforms? It seems to
> >me that I have some problems on a Debian Linux box.
> 
> Looking at the code, it's *supposed* to be thread-safe,

I used a lock around it but that didn't solve the problem.

Ciao, Michael.