Re: gethostname, socket need startup code

[Simon Josefsson]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Simon,
>
> On mingw, the gethostname test fails for me:
>
>   gethostname failed, rc -1 errno 10093
>   FAIL: test-gethostname.exe
>
> The reason is that the WSAStartup function has not been called. Why not make
> this initialization implicitly in the gethostname function? And likewise for
> the socket() function? With that, the unit tests (test-select.c and 
> test-poll.c)
> don't need to do this initialization explicitly any more. One less portability
> problem when porting to mingw.
>
> Here are two proposed patches. I verified that the behaviour of test-select
> and test-poll does not change, and it fixes the gethostname failure.

Looks fine to me, please push it.

/Simon