From: Daniel A. <dan...@gm...> - 2006-08-21 14:37:32
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> > Mark Doliner wrote: > I'm working on that right now, actually. Unfortunately gethostbyname_r() is a > GNU extension, which means we shouldn't use it. Which means that we'll have > to use gethostbyname() in a blocking manner on systems without addrinfo. > Fortunately this should be a relatively small number of systems To further complicate things, gethostbyname() is thread-safe on win32, and getaddrinfo() is not available before Windows XP. (Technically, getaddrinfo() has be present since win95, but it was a inline macro until winXP - the mingw headers don't have the macro, so effectively we can't use it). -D |