[Asterisk-Dev] thread-safe and reentrant functions

[Steven Critchfield]

On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 11:04, Gene Kochanowsky wrote:
> As long as people are making requests regarding the Asterisk code
> base, I would like to see asterisk converted to an object oriented
> application.

Can you give a compelling answer as to why? At least the message that
started the thread is working towards reduced number of bugs.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Angel Carpintero [mailto:acp at e-group.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 7:52 AM
> To: asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com
> Subject: [Asterisk-Dev] thread-safe and reentrant functions
> 
> 
> 
>  Hi all , 
> 
>    I was looking at the source code and i found some not reentrant functions 
>  like gethostbyname() . I guess that makes asterisk not thread-safe , and it should
>  be solved . However i have test asterisk and seems to be quite *stable* ,
>   
>  Should it be patched with reentrant functions , for instance gethostbyname_r() ?
> 
>  Feel free to give your commments/opinios.
> 
>  Cheers.
-- 
Steven Critchfield  <critch at basesys.com>