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 Message-ID: <434BE411.4060702@air2web.com> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 12:10:57 -0400 From: Richard Campbell Reply-To: richard.campbell@air2web.com User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0+ (Windows/20050712) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: gethostbyname_r References: <20051011143306.GI12938@calimero.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Brian Ford wrote: > > 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 1) Resolving a numeric host is more common than whatever (all - "most all") is, IMO. 2) The difference between most all and all is usually horrible to track down. -Richard Campbell. -- 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/