Are sockets thread safe

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Hello Group,

I am working on Linux environments. The kernal version is 2.4.21 and
my question is;

Are sockets on Linux thread safe. For example if the socke it open and
one thread was
reading from the socket and had to relinquish CPU to make way for
another thread, And
then the other thread is trying to 'Write' to the same socket.

What will be the behavior.

If these libraries are not thread safe then what are my alternatives

1. onLinux
2. on Unix

Thanks for your help.

nagrik

ps: I have read the man pages for sockets and they don't say anything
about thread safety.

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