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struct hostent
- From: David E Euresti <davie at MIT dot EDU>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 14:12:19 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: struct hostent
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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