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From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X11R2/SunOS 3.2 + gethostbyname?
Message-ID: <292@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 23 Oct 88 21:52:26 GMT
References: <1574@cayman.COM>
Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>I tracked it down to what looks like abberhent behavior of gethostbyname()
>on Sun's. They seem to return a unsigned long IP address where other machines
>return a ptr to the same. (struct hostent *)->h_addr

No, Sun's "gethostbyname" returns a pointer to a "struct hostent", just
as everybody else's should (and probably does).