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| author | Philip Guenther <guenther@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2014-05-09 06:38:28 +0000 |
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| committer | Philip Guenther <guenther@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2014-05-09 06:38:28 +0000 |
| commit | 6fa8e87bb4131c3c055ea5e2887d35b32a7dca9a (patch) | |
| tree | 6521c9de65b26d79dd692fec9a448d47452203e2 | |
| parent | 279722c18189a3dd65bc68ae22af204664f6e1e2 (diff) | |
Add a bit more detail about dot notation from the old inet(3) manpage.
ok jmc@
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/net/inet_ntop.3 | 14 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/net/inet_ntop.3 b/lib/libc/net/inet_ntop.3 index a5bd5076feb..7c88440ff3d 100644 --- a/lib/libc/net/inet_ntop.3 +++ b/lib/libc/net/inet_ntop.3 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: inet_ntop.3,v 1.1 2014/04/19 11:18:01 guenther Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: inet_ntop.3,v 1.2 2014/05/09 06:38:27 guenther Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: inet.3,v 1.7 1997/06/18 02:25:24 lukem Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1990, 1991, 1993 @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ .\" .\" @(#)inet.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: April 19 2014 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: May 9 2014 $ .Dt INET_NTOP 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -78,7 +78,15 @@ Values must be specified using the standard dot notation: a.b.c.d .Ed .Pp -All four parts must be decimal numbers between 0 and 255, inclusive. +All four parts must be decimal numbers between 0 and 255, inclusive, +and are assigned, from left to right, +to the four bytes of an Internet address. +Note that when an Internet address is viewed as a 32-bit integer +quantity on a system that uses little-endian byte order +(such as the Intel 386, 486 and Pentium processors) +the bytes referred to above appear as +.Dq Li d.c.b.a . +That is, little-endian bytes are ordered from right to left. .Sh INTERNET ADDRESSES (IP VERSION 6) In order to support scoped IPv6 addresses, .Xr getaddrinfo 3 |