Humble request at Walter: Could you _please_ fix phobos already?

[Regan Heath]

downs wrote:
> Chris Miller wrote:
>> On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:00:48 -0400, downs <default_357-line at yahoo.de>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I don't like Tango. Going by looks and usability alone, I'd far 
>>> prefer  to use Phobos. However, sometimes I run into trouble with 
>>> Phobos, like  sockets being broken in interesting ways, the connect 
>>> function not being  synchronized, lack of templates in std.string .. 
>>> I'm sure many of you  have had similar experiences.
>>
>>
>> How are sockets broken in interesting ways, and why would connect need 
>> to  be synchronized? It's mostly just directly calling the BSD 
>> sockets  interface.
> Have you ever tried connecting to multiple sites in multiple threads 
> rapidly? I don't know about your system, but it caused a segfault on my 
> Win32 and it causes a segfault on my Linux.
> I'm pretty sure I debugged it once and traced it back to sock.connect 
> not using threadsafe functions. I don't have the specifics though. I can 
> dig them out again if you want, but my gdb is currently broken.
>  --downs

connect just calls BSD connect and I don't recall that being 
thread-unsafe, however calls to gethostname are, I think.

Regan