Thread: are winsock functions thread safe?

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    are winsock functions thread safe?

    Hi, i have a server which randomly crashes on occasion and im trying to hunt down the problem. Im just wonder, are winsock functions thread safe? i should point out im using winsock 1.1

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    What do you mean? Are you using the same socket in multiple threads?

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    If you are using blocking sockets then not really. The blocking socket will sit there until something happens which is never good for a thread.

    But besides that yes sockets are safe. I've got a server running in a thread which then fires off more threads to serve the connections and it works just fine. I would not recommend attempting to share a socket acrossed a thread though.

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