On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 12:31:09PM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 12:33:01 -0800, "Crist J. Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> 
> > Where inet_pton(3) will fail (return a 1). That is, inet_pton(3) only
> > understands dotted quads. The comments in src/lib/libc/net/inet_pton.c
> > clearly show this is the intended behavior. But is that what we want?
> 
> Yes.  The old format is deprecated, obsolete, legacy, however you want
> to put it.

OK. But I think it should be documented.

Index: inet.3
===================================================================
RCS file: /export/ncvs/src/lib/libc/net/inet.3,v
retrieving revision 1.19
diff -u -r1.19 inet.3
--- inet.3      1 Oct 2001 16:08:55 -0000       1.19
+++ inet.3      29 Nov 2001 00:47:28 -0000
@@ -203,6 +203,14 @@
 otherwise, the number is interpreted as decimal).
 .Pp
 The
+.Fn inet_pton
+function only understands Internet addresses written as dotted quads.
+Each
+.Dq part
+may only contain numeric characters and is always interpreted as a
+decimal value.
+.Pp
+The
 .Fn inet_aton
 and
 .Fn inet_ntoa

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