From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4882 invoked from network); 4 Jul 2002 10:57:30 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 4 Jul 2002 10:57:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 23050 invoked by alias); 4 Jul 2002 10:57:24 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 17408 Received: (qmail 23037 invoked from network); 4 Jul 2002 10:57:24 -0000 To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk (Zsh hackers list) Subject: Re: PATCH: tcp cleanup and breakage In-reply-to: "Borsenkow Andrej"'s message of "Thu, 04 Jul 2002 14:42:11 +0400." <6134254DE87BD411908B00A0C99B044F03A0B326@mowd019a.mow.siemens.ru> Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2002 11:56:55 +0100 Message-ID: <27105.1025780215@csr.com> From: Peter Stephenson Borsenkow Andrej wrote: > > getaddrinfo and getnameinfo are used instead of gethostbyname2, > > getipnodebyname, getservbyname, getprotobyname, inet_aton, inet_ntop, > > and other fun functions. This means that zsh/net/tcp and zsh/zftp > > would be damn near useless on systems with broken or missing > > getaddrinfo() in the absence of compatibility functions/workarounds. > > > > Why? I presume this is to make the core code neater and move compatilibity code somewhere else. But it won't work under cygwin until there are such functions, so they'll have to be written before this gets committed. -- Peter Stephenson Software Engineer CSR Ltd., Science Park, Milton Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WH, UK Tel: +44 (0)1223 392070 ********************************************************************** The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. **********************************************************************