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Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2003 09:43:14 -0500
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre.Humblet@ieee.org>
Subject: Re: Segmentation Fault of ssh3.7.1 with cygwin1.5.5-1 in W95
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Pierre A. Humblet wrote:

> The real problem is that the s_proto pointer of the struct servent
> returned by the Windows getservbyname on Win95 is invalid. 

Looking at net.cc, this problem seems to be well known.
However the workaround is only applied when copying the string,
not when computing its length.

Pierre


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