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Re: cygwin 1.3.11-3: Strange variable contents when logging via telnet


On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 06:40:46PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>I have actually no idea when that inet_dummy was introduced and
>what it's good for.  Perhaps Chris has a clue.

I think it is for those systems where argv space competes with environ
space.  I used to do similar things with UNIX programs back in the 80's.

I think this should just be #ifndef CYGWIN.  It will have no effect on
cygwin one way or the other.

cgf

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