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From: "Steven Hartland" <steven@multiplay.co.uk>
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Subject: inet_pton returns 1 on error
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 20:10:58 +0100
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When given an invalid mask such as "24" cygwin's inet_pton
returns 1 instead of either 0 or -1 signifying an error.

This causes rsync to fail access checks for CIDR notation.

    Regards
    Steve


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