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Re: [egorovv@mailandnews.com: inet_network]
Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> writes:
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 08:33:35AM +0400, Vadim Egorov wrote:
> >Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> writes:
> >
> >> On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 11:47:12PM +0300, Vadim Egorov wrote:
> >> >One more way is to borow it -- glibc contains quite compact and independent one --
> >> >though I'm not quite sure about cygwin policy in this respect.
> >>
> >> We can't borrow from glibc due to license considerations, unfortunately.
> >> BSD, on the other hand...
> >>
> >> cgf
> >>
> >As I found both FreeBSD and glibc contain the same code of inet_network
> >(with slightest diffs).
>
> There should be no problem using BSD code. We use it in other places in Cygwin.
>
> cgf
>
Then I'll try it.
Is it a better solution then using undocumented wsock32.dll feature?
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Regards,
Vadim Egorov