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Date:	Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:52:58 -0400
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: gethostbyname_r
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On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 01:35:44PM -0400, Richard Campbell wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>AFAIK, cygwin's gethostbyname is thread safe in all cases.
>
>Since I was referencing you for the proposition that it was not thread
>safe in the case of resolving a numeric IP,
>(http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-05/msg00182.html ) I'll certainly
>defer to you.

The thread-safeness problem was fixed in February of this year.

cgf

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