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 -- 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/
