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authorderaadt <deraadt@openbsd.org>1999-06-05 19:29:43 +0000
committerderaadt <deraadt@openbsd.org>1999-06-05 19:29:43 +0000
commitbcd7ae3897d1fe123bbdb971a5fb04d6810625c7 (patch)
tree125fb24b56a747d8c45a7181e6968c3f55f42fea /lib/libc/net/inet.3
parentRemove bad examples of stuff we do not yet support in this version anyhow (diff)
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stronger suggest
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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" .