The FreeBSD operating system has thread-safe getaddrinfo(3) since version 5.3. Therefore, serialization in the socket module is not necessary when Python is compiled for this system. -Maxim
Logged In: YES user_id=55188 Fixed in CVS: Modules/socketmodule.c 1.314 Misc/NEWS 1.1376 I'll merge this patch into ports along with updating lang/python to 2.4.2 after the version is released. Thank you!