From: cvn@interchain.nl (Kees van Veen) Subject: Re: gethostby... broken when forked 4 Dec 1997 07:43:10 -0800 Message-ID: <3486CA4B.24CA477A.cygnus.gnu-win32@interchain.nl> References: <34862B09.3FFE@dtv.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Jeff Smart Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com 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 - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".