On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 07:08:52PM -0500, VaX#n8 wrote:
> thing is that once you do a gethostbyname you can't lseek on *any*
> file descriptor.

Your test program does not show that. You need to add the proper includes,
<unistd.h> and <netdb.h>, to have the right prototypes in scope. Especially
since lseek takes a 64 bit int as it's second argument, so argument promotion
does matter. Now you're probably calling it with a random third "whence"
arg.

Martin