IP> (...) this is not a Cygwin problem at all. (...) Thank you Igor, you were very helpful, indeed. Of course, this was not a cygwin problem, and narrowing it down to the cygwin_gethostname call directed me to some old thread: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-03/msg00097.html (I was not alone :-)
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