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Re: [egorovv@mailandnews.com: inet_network]

On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 08:33:35AM +0400, Vadim Egorov wrote:
>Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> writes:
>
>> On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 11:47:12PM +0300, Vadim Egorov wrote:
>> >One more way is to borow it -- glibc contains quite compact and independent one -- 
>> >though I'm not quite sure about cygwin policy in this respect. 
>> 
>> We can't borrow from glibc due to license considerations, unfortunately.
>> BSD, on the other hand...
>> 
>> cgf
>> 
>As I found both FreeBSD and glibc contain the same code of inet_network
>(with slightest diffs).

There should be no problem using BSD code.  We use it in other places in Cygwin.

cgf
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