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| author | Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1999-06-05 19:29:44 +0000 |
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| committer | Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1999-06-05 19:29:44 +0000 |
| commit | b4bd80708cf621f4c8965d1f8daada4c36b5a078 (patch) | |
| tree | 5fb0f4f8d63afa7ab8a645811ce10f92090e6698 /lib | |
| parent | e68ce6fd56387937b3bf90e7190d444fb05d569a (diff) | |
stronger suggest
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/net/inet.3 | 15 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/net/inet.3 b/lib/libc/net/inet.3 index a9da73db3a8..d29f3160aa9 100644 --- a/lib/libc/net/inet.3 +++ b/lib/libc/net/inet.3 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: inet.3,v 1.6 1999/05/25 13:06:45 aaron Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: inet.3,v 1.7 1999/06/05 19:29:43 deraadt Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: inet.3,v 1.7 1997/06/18 02:25:24 lukem Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1990, 1991, 1993 @@ -303,9 +303,16 @@ The value (0xffffffff) is a valid broadcast address, but .Fn inet_addr cannot return that value without indicating failure. +Also, +.Fn inet_addr +should have been designed to return a +.Fa "struct in_addr" . The newer .Fn inet_aton -function does not share this problem. +function does not share these problems, and almost all existing code +should be modified to use +.Fn inet_aton +instead. .Pp The problem of host byte ordering versus network byte ordering is confusing. @@ -313,7 +320,3 @@ confusing. The string returned by .Fn inet_ntoa resides in a static memory area. -.Pp -.Fn inet_addr -should return a -.Fa "struct in_addr" . |