From:	MERC::"uunet!CRVAX.SRI.COM!RELAY-INFO-VAX" 19-JUN-1992 22:20:07.64
To:	info-vax@sri.com
CC:	
Subj:	re: Problem with gethostbyname

Kazuro Furukawa <apricot.kek.jp!furukawa> writes:

>	Please help me.  I have a programming problem with VMS 5.5,
> UCX 1.3 and VAXC 3.2.  When I use gethostbyname(), it returns a
> correct result.  However, after I install the program with some
> priviledge, it returns NULL.  What is neccessary to install this
> program with priviledges?
>[...]

Your INSTALLed program can only use INSTALLed shareable images.

UCX gethostbyname() calls upon the shareable image SYS$SHARE:UCX$IPC_SHR.EXE
which is *not* INSTALLed by default. Because it does so dynamically,
you apparently get the silent failure instead of an error message.

	$ INSTALL add SYS$SHARE:UCX$IPC_SHR

should do the trick (add qualifiers like /SHARE ad libitum).

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