gethostbyname/gethostbyaddr patch
Corinna Vinschen
cygwin-patches@cygwin.com
Thu Aug 23 23:58:00 GMT 2001
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 04:17:36PM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote:
> The following patch:
>
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-cvs/2001-q3/msg00100.html
>
> broke gethostbyname() and gethostbyaddr() when the IP address contains
> zero components. For example, my mail server is 24.0.95.227. When I
> connect to it with a Cygwin app, the address actually used is 24.0.0.0.
>
> The root cause is that dup_char_list() does not handle embedded null
> characters. The attached patch is one way to correct this problem.
>
> Jason
Thanks, applied.
Corinna
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