struct hostent

[David E Euresti <davie at MIT dot EDU>]

Hello everytime I reinstall a new snapshot of cygwin, I have to modify one
header file, netdb.h

netdb.h in cygwin declares
struct	hostent {
	const char	*h_name;	/* official name of host */
	char	**h_aliases;	/* alias list */
	short	h_addrtype;	/* host address type */
	short	h_length;	/* length of address */
	char	**h_addr_list;	/* list of addresses from name server */
#define	h_addr	h_addr_list[0]	/* address, for backward compatiblity */
};

Except Solaris declares it as
struct	hostent {
	char	*h_name;	/* official name of host */
	char	**h_aliases;	/* alias list */
	short	h_addrtype;	/* host address type */
	short	h_length;	/* length of address */
	char	**h_addr_list;	/* list of addresses from name server */
#define	h_addr	h_addr_list[0]	/* address, for backward compatiblity */
};

And even MSDN declares it as
struct hostent {
    char FAR *       h_name;
    char FAR * FAR * h_aliases;
    short            h_addrtype;
    short            h_length;
    char FAR * FAR * h_addr_list;
};

notice how h_name is not const.
Is there any reason why h_name is const in cygwin?

Thanks,
David


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