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Date:	Wed, 22 Aug 2001 12:52:01 -0400
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To:	cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: serious problem with cygwin and winsock?
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In-Reply-To:	<20010822175816.A16265@cygbert.vinschen.de>; from vinschen@redhat.com on Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 05:58:16PM +0200

On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 05:58:16PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 09:08:25AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> I looked into net.cc and there are only a hand full of functions concerned:
>> 
>> cygwin_inet_ntoa
>> cygwin_getprotobyname
>> cygwin_getprotobynumber
>> cygwin_getservbyname
>> cygwin_getservbyport
>> cygwin_gethostbyname
>> cygwin_gethostbyaddr
>> 
>> I will add static buffers or appropriate allocation functions in the
>> next days. Fortunately these functions are defined so that the
>> allocated structure is recycled on the next call by the same process...
>
>I checked in a fix half an hour ago. All seven functions are now
>using a local buffer which gets allocated on demand.

Hmm.  This is basically what I was thinking of but it doesn't look like
this is a thread-safe implementation.

cgf

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