On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I thought about that on the way home. Perhaps the way to handle this is a
> pair of ifdefs (HAVE_GETADDRINFO and HAVE_GETHOSTBYNAME2) with a worst case
> fall-though to report failure.
gethostbyname2 is not thread-safe, and thus should not be
used by PHP. The *info family of functions is portable to
basically every IPv6 platform anyway, so we don't lose
functionality.
- Sascha
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