Re: gawk 3.1.6 bug in /inet/tcp/lport/0/0

[Aharon Robbins]

> > Under Linux, even when using the replacement getaddrinfo that calls 
> > gethostbyname,
> > a hostname argument of "0" still seems to "work", in that gethostbyname 
> > does NOT
> > return NULL.  This is a bit weird.
>
> I'm not quite sure if that's ok.  Giving a "0" to gethostbyname is
> beyond the scope of the gethostbyname function.

Right, that's what I meant by "This is a bit weird".

> > Please try it out and let me know.
>
> It fixes this problem on Cygwin.

Great. It'll make it's way into CVS soon.

Thanks,

Arnold