FreeLists / openbeosnetteam / [openbeosnetteam] Fix for resolving host names

[Brennan Cleveland <warriorspot@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Team,

I fixed the issue with segmentation violations when resolving hostnames 
to IP addresses using /etc/hosts.  However, I don't really know if it 
is a proper fix.  As you know, only the first line of /etc/hosts would 
work.  If the host name was on any line after 1, or was not in 
/etc/hosts, or if /etc/hosts did not exist, you would get a 
segmentation violation.   After much hunting around and dead ends, I 
found that adding the following line to the gethostbyname(const char 
*name) function in gethostnamadr.c as the first executable line of code 
seems to fix the issue:

h_errno = (int *)malloc(sizeof(int));

If you agree this is an actual fix, and not a workaround for a larger 
problem that I'm not seeing, go ahead and submit it.

Thanks,

Brennan