gethostby* users

Pádraig Brady P at draigBrady.com
Fri Oct 12 09:28:36 UTC 2007


Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Even though the situation improved, there are still some programs left
> which use the gethostby* functions.  These really have to be converted
> to use getaddrinfo.

A link to why would be appropriate:
http://udrepper.livejournal.com/16116.html

Note there is no mention of gethostby* issues in my man page.
A BUG section would be appropriate I think.

Pádraig.




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