Re: [libgfortran,patch] MinGW wrapper for getlogin, gethostname andgetpid functions

[FX Coudert <fxcoudert at gmail dot com>]

> What is wrong with the winsock2.h gethostname(), which more closely emulates BSD
> socket semantics?

Because, if I understand correctly, it requires linking programs with 
libws2_32.a, and I'd rather not create special cases for MinGW in the 
build process. The non-standard HOSTNM routine is mainly used for code 
displaying a welcoming "Simulation started on host venus at $date", so I 
don't think we should care too much about details at that point.

Answer to your mail about getpid() in <process.h>: it works perfectly, I 
simply didn't know it was there. When I code on MinGW, I just try to do 
things just like I would on a Unix platform, and then if it fails I go 
to MSDN online doc and look up for the Windows way to do it. From now 
on, I will grep /mingw/include for interesting things.

FX