From:	cvn AT interchain DOT nl (Kees van Veen)
Subject:	Re: gethostby... broken when forked
4 Dec 1997 07:43:10 -0800 :
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To:	Jeff Smart <jeff AT dtv DOT net>
Cc:	gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

Jeff Smart wrote:
> 
> I have found the BSD calls gethostbyname and gethostbyaddr break when
> they are used in a child process that was forked.
> ...
> Has anyone else found this nasty ?

Yes I have experienced this on W95 too, I moved to NT4 SP3 where your
example program works fine.

Kees
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