[Bug 11965] gethostbyname requires a successful WSAStartup invocation before performing an operation

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11965

Andrew Nguyen <arethusa26 at gmail.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Summary|WSAStartup() is not         |gethostbyname requires a
                   |required to do networking   |successful WSAStartup
                   |                            |invocation before
                   |                            |performing an operation

--- Comment #16 from Andrew Nguyen <arethusa26 at gmail.com> 2011-02-24 05:06:36 CST ---
(In reply to comment #15)
> (In reply to comment #14)
> > Is this really fixed? I imagine gethostbyname isn't the only function that
> > requires Winsock to be initialized.
> 
> Perhaps more to the point, is this really a bug?  The only app that seemed to
> have suffered from this was the test case.  Personally, I'm content to see this
> closed until another app that has troubles arises.

I probably read too much into the bug description, which reads like a metabug.
I have no problem with creating individual bug reports for particular
WSAStartup issues an application may encounter, so I won't object to leaving
the status of this bug as-is.

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