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: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 11:00:16 -0500 From: Brian Ford Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: gethostbyname_r In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20051011143306.GI12938@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-IsSubscribed: yes On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Jason Pyeron wrote: > On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Oct 11 10:15, Jason Pyeron wrote: > >> I am tring to port an application, but I cant seem to find the glibc2 > >> gethostbyname_r function. > > > > It doesn't exist on Cygwin. > > so is this the only way to go? has any one verified the code? > > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-04/msg00532.html > > how come it never made it in? > > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-04/msg00540.html > > or since it is just calling the windows api, can I > > #define gethostbyname_r gethostbyname There is almost no need for gethostbyname_r on Cygwin since its sole purpose is to create a thread safe interface. In most all cases, Cygwin's gethostbyname is thread safe. http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-05/msg00202.html -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International the best safety device in any aircraft is a well-trained pilot... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/