MOO crash with hostname lookups

MOO crash with hostname lookups

[Gavin Lambert]

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When trying to get the MOO server running under CygWin b20.1, I
discovered it crashes Windows when starting the hostname lookup
processes.

The name lookup code is in name_lookup.c (the source distribution is
available from < http://www.moo.mud.org/ >).  I'm fairly new to both
CygWin and UNIX programming, so I don't know what the exact cause of
the problem is, but:

 - the problem does NOT occur if I am connected to the Internet
 - the code in question primarily consists of calls to fork(),
pipe(), gethostbyname(), gethostbyaddr(), and wait().
 - in B18 it occasionally caused a register dump (while continuing
with the main program properly), but didn't crash Windows.

Any ideas?  (remember, please email me directly)

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MOO crash with hostname lookups

[Gavin Lambert]

[Please send any replies to me directly]

When trying to get the MOO server running under CygWin b20.1, I
discovered it crashes Windows when starting the hostname lookup
processes.

The name lookup code is in name_lookup.c (the source distribution is
available from < http://www.moo.mud.org/ >).  I'm fairly new to both
CygWin and UNIX programming, so I don't know what the exact cause of
the problem is, but:

 - the problem does NOT occur if I am connected to the Internet
 - the code in question primarily consists of calls to fork(),
pipe(), gethostbyname(), gethostbyaddr(), and wait().
 - in B18 it occasionally caused a register dump (while continuing
with the main program properly), but didn't crash Windows.

Any ideas?  (remember, please email me directly)

-- 
Gavin Lambert, uecasm@geocities.com
< http://ue.cjb.net/ >, < http://crash.ihug.co.nz/~brianc/ >
ICQ: 2274180  (<www.mirabilis.com>)
For a dynamic signature like this, < http://ue.cjb.net/dynasig/ > 
----
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