On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 12:25:04PM -0500, Jeff Sickel wrote: > > On Mar 29, 2013, at 12:20 PM, Charles Forsyth <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > the linux manual page describes hstrerror as obsolete > > Which distro? So many to choose from… >
It's sort of moot, since The Man wants you to stop using gethostbyname and friends anyway. They're marked as 'obsolete' because POSIX.1-2001 wants you to use getnameinfo et al. instead. Anything using gethostbyname is probably going to want herror (and thus hstrerror) to be there. khm
