1b8 Subj : Re: simultareaous read/write in a socket with pthreads To : comp.programming.threads From : David Schwartz Date : Mon Apr 18 2005 01:07 pm "Nor" wrote in message news:tuR8e.93496$r7.95281@telenews.teleline.es... > Is safe to read and write to the same socket file descriptor > simultaneously > with 2 threads under linux, or is better to use a mutex? It is perfectly safe. DS . 0