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Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 13:35:44 -0400
From: Richard Campbell <richard.campbell@air2web.com>
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Subject: Re: gethostbyname_r
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> AFAIK, cygwin's gethostbyname is thread safe in all cases.

Since I was referencing you for the proposition that it was not thread 
safe in the case of resolving a numeric IP, 
(http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-05/msg00182.html ) I'll certainly 
defer to you.

-Richard Campbell.


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