ws2_32: Use the routing table information for gethostbyname('self') if the magic IP would otherwise be returned.

[Vitaliy Margolen]

Kai Blin wrote:
> On Saturday 10 October 2009 22:52:48 Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
> 
>>> Changelog:
>>>     ws2_32: Use the routing table information for
>>> gethostbyname('self') if the magic IP would otherwise be returned.
>> Thanks for the patch, however there are few issues with it.
>>
>> Why do you return a list of IP addresses from WS2_get_local_ips if you need
>> only one? Just get the one with the lowest metric and return it.
>>
>> I think it would be better
> 
> That's not what Windows does, though. Windows returns the full list.
> 
Got you, then what the patch does is still can be improved.

Since patch using WS2_get_local_ips() in one place only return something you
can just pass directly to the app, not something that needs duplicating and
then freeing.

Vitaliy.