Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 13:42:40 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: gethostbyaddr() doesn't work for localhost under W32/9x Message-ID: <20020828134240.H5475@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20020827110506.68511.qmail@web21008.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 05:15:24PM +0200, Ronald Landheer wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a small question: gethostbyaddr() doesn't work for localhost > under W32/9x: the error set in errno is "operation not permitted". > I've attached the smallest testcase I can think of. What I'd like to > know is why this doesn't work, while gethostbyname() on localhost works > like a charm? Is this a bug in my brain, in W32/9x or in Cygwin > (probably the second, possibly the first) Works here, 98 and XP. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/