serious problem with cygwin and winsock?

Corinna Vinschen vinschen@redhat.com
Wed Aug 22 08:58:00 GMT 2001


On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 09:08:25AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> I looked into net.cc and there are only a hand full of functions concerned:
> 
> cygwin_inet_ntoa
> cygwin_getprotobyname
> cygwin_getprotobynumber
> cygwin_getservbyname
> cygwin_getservbyport
> cygwin_gethostbyname
> cygwin_gethostbyaddr
> 
> I will add static buffers or appropriate allocation functions in the
> next days. Fortunately these functions are defined so that the
> allocated structure is recycled on the next call by the same process...

I checked in a fix half an hour ago. All seven functions are now
using a local buffer which gets allocated on demand.

Corinna

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