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Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 17:12:32 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: gethostbyname_r
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On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 10:54:32PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 12:10:57PM -0400, Richard Campbell wrote:
>>
>>>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.
>>
>>AFAIK, cygwin's gethostbyname is thread safe in all cases.
>
>So it would be possible to add an alias gethostbyname_r == gethostbyname
>to the list of exported functions?

Take a look at the man page for gethostbyname and gethostbyname_r.

cgf

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