On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Jason Pyeron wrote: > On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Oct 11 10:15, Jason Pyeron wrote: > >> I am tring to port an application, but I cant seem to find the glibc2 > >> gethostbyname_r function. > > > > It doesn't exist on Cygwin. > > so is this the only way to go? has any one verified the code? > > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-04/msg00532.html > > how come it never made it in? > > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-04/msg00540.html > > or since it is just calling the windows api, can I > > #define gethostbyname_r gethostbyname
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 -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International the best safety device in any aircraft is a well-trained pilot... -- 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/