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

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