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RE: [PATCH] Add-on to gethostbyname2
- From: <phumblet at phumblet dot no-ip dot org>
- To: <cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 09:30:00 -0500
- Subject: RE: [PATCH] Add-on to gethostbyname2
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> From: Corinna Vinschen
> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2015 5:48 AM
>
> On Jan 22 21:05, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> > Add-on to gethostbyname2, as discussed previously on main list.
> > The diff is also attached.
> >
>
> Do you have some wording for the release info in the docs, please?
>
Make gethostbyname2 handle numerical host addresses as well as the reserved domain names "localhost" and "invalid".
Pierre