I like it! One quibble, required to build on my system, probably a glibc-2.0.7 issue: --- /home/ldoolitt/cvs/busybox/libbb/xgethostbyname.c Wed May 16 08:40:51 2001 +++ libbb/xgethostbyname.c Wed May 16 09:48:19 2001 @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ #include <netdb.h> extern int h_errno; +#include "libbb.h" struct hostent *xgethostbyname(const char *name) {