Hi, I am not confident how this patch-submission bussiness works, so I will just quickly describe what's wrong and how to fix it. The current implementation of gethostbyname in WS2_32 (located in winsock/socket.c) doesn't handle a null string argument correctly. According to MS definition of gethostbyname, when it receives a null argument, it should return the same result as if a call to gethostname was made. Currently Wine doesn't do this: it simply crashes. Fix is simple: add something like: if (name == NULL) return __ws_gethostbyname( "localhost", WS_DUP_LINEAR ); I hope this helps you out a bit. Good luck with the project, it's been very useful to me. __________________________________________________ Yahoo! Plus For a better Internet experience http://www.yahoo.co.uk/btoffer
