On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:59:40 -0800, you wrote:
Hi Mike,
bug 1541 is still *not* fixed correctly. See when passing in NULL in windows to gethostbyname, it is guarenteed to return a list of local IP addresses mapped on the box. However, with WINE, passing NULL causes gethostname to be passed into gethostbyname and does *not* always return back the list of local IP addresses on the box.
When I implemented the case that name == NULL ( another call for help, I wasn't aware of your bug report, sorry), the only reference I could find was this:
| If null is provided in the name parameter, the returned string is the same | as the string returned by a successful gethostname function call.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winsock/win...
Small detail: gethostbyname does not return a string, but this is what I guessed the intention of the writer was.
Can you point to any documentation where this guarantee is specified?
Rein.