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Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 16:17:36 +1200
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From: Gavin Lambert <uecasm AT geocities DOT com>
Subject: MOO crash with hostname lookups
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[Please send any replies to me directly]

When trying to get the MOO server running under CygWin b20.1, I
discovered it crashes Windows when starting the hostname lookup
processes.

The name lookup code is in name_lookup.c (the source distribution is
available from <http://www.moo.mud.org/>).  I'm fairly new to both
CygWin and UNIX programming, so I don't know what the exact cause of
the problem is, but:

 - the problem does NOT occur if I am connected to the Internet
 - the code in question primarily consists of calls to fork(),
pipe(), gethostbyname(), gethostbyaddr(), and wait().
 - in B18 it occasionally caused a register dump (while continuing
with the main program properly), but didn't crash Windows.

Any ideas?  (remember, please email me directly)

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