Dear All,
This is the output of uname -a on my RedHat 7.2 machine.
Linux yokogawa.npi.stpn.soft.net 2.4.18 #4 SMP Wed Sep 11
12:16:46 IST 2002 i686 unknown
In my sources directory usr/src, This is the header of
linux-2.4.7-10/net/socket.c file
/* NET An implementation of the SOCKET network access protocol.
*
* Version: @(#)socket.c 1.1.93 18/02/95
My problem is regarding the thread-safeness of sendto () system call.
In the above-mentioned socket.c file, these lines are in the header
* Alan Cox : Added thread locking to sys_* calls
* for sockets. May have errors at the
* moment.
I am planning to use a single socket for sending ICMP requests through
multiple threads.In view of this comment in the socket.c file, should I
assume that thread-safety may be buggy with regards to the sendto () call
and provide my own user level mutexes around every sendto () call. Your
timely suggestion would be a great help to me.
With Regards,
Atul
akumar@networkprograms.com
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