On 07-May-99 Matti Aarnio wrote:
> "David B. Rees" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asks:
>> I recently upgraded to glibc-2.1.1pre2 from glibc-2.1.1pre1, and found that
>> doing a gethostbyname on IP addresses now fails. For instance, the
>> following
>> code returns NULL on a glibc-2.1.1pre2 machine, and the same binary works
>> fine
>> on another non-glibc-2.1.1pre2 machine:
>
> You are misusing the gethostbyname() misbehaviour at some versions
> of the glibc-2.0. Per specification doing mapping from IPv4 address to
> hostent structures, you should use: inet_aton() (or inet_pton() for
> newer systems)
Ah, I didn't realize that it wasn't supposed to work. Where can I find
Official documentation on this? My man pages just aren't cutting it anymore...
Thanks,
Dave
