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<h1 class="topictitle1">Thread safety</h1>
<div><p>A function is considered threadsafe if you can start it simultaneously
in multiple threads within the same process.</p>
<p>A function is threadsafe if and only if all the functions it calls are
threadsafe also. Socket APIs are comprised of system and network functions,
which are both threadsafe.</p>
<p>All network functions with names that end in "_r" have similar semantics
and are also threadsafe. </p>
<p>The other resolver routines are threadsafe with each other but they use
the _res data structure. This data structure is shared between all threads
in a process and can be changed by an application during a resolver call. </p>
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<div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a href="aconcepts.htm" title="Advanced socket concepts go beyond a general discussion of what sockets are and how they work. They provide ways to design socket applications for larger and more complex networks.">Advanced socket concepts</a></div>
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<div class="relref"><strong>Related reference</strong><br />
<div><a href="xthread.htm" title="Here is an example of a program that uses gethostbyaddr_r().">Example: Use gethostbyaddr_r() for threadsafe network routines</a></div>
<div><a href="xdns.htm" title="This example shows how to query and update Domain Name System (DNS) records.">Example: Update and query DNS</a></div>
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