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Re: gethostbyname_r


Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 12:10:57PM -0400, Richard Campbell wrote:

Brian Ford wrote:

There is almost no need for gethostbyname_r on Cygwin since its sole
purpose is to create a thread safe interface.  In most all cases, Cygwin's
gethostbyname is thread safe.

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-05/msg00202.html

1) Resolving a numeric host is more common than whatever (all - "most all") is, IMO.
2) The difference between most all and all is usually horrible to track down.


AFAIK, cygwin's gethostbyname is thread safe in all cases.

So it would be possible to add an alias gethostbyname_r == gethostbyname to the list of exported functions?


Gerrit -- =^..^=


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