Sockets question.

Eric Norum eric.norum at usask.ca
Fri Jan 12 14:44:38 UTC 2001


Sergei Organov wrote:
> 
> Could somebody please enlighten me.
> 
> Is it safe to write to a socket from one thread and read from the same socket
> from another thread without guards?
> 
> Sergei.
As far as I know, the answer is yes.  There are separate structures for
blocking on the receive and transmit queues.  The network mutex should
take care of the rest.
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