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Re: gethostby... broken when forked
- To: Jeff Smart <jeff at dtv dot net>
- Subject: Re: gethostby... broken when forked
- From: Kees van Veen <cvn at interchain dot nl>
- Date: Thu, 04 Dec 1997 16:20:43 +0100
- CC: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Organization: Interchain
- References: <34862B09.3FFE@dtv.net>
Jeff Smart wrote:
>
> I have found the BSD calls gethostbyname and gethostbyaddr break when
> they are used in a child process that was forked.
> ...
> Has anyone else found this nasty ?
Yes I have experienced this on W95 too, I moved to NT4 SP3 where your
example program works fine.
Kees
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