Hi, On Mon, 12.04.2010 at 06:54:31 +0200, Bret S. Lambert <bret.lamb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 01:43:11PM -0700, patrick keshishian wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 09:40:45PM +0200, Toni Mueller wrote: > > > I already suspected something like this, but this behaviour is not > > > documented in the man page. > > > > Look at the very bottom of the man page: > > $ man 9 inet_ntoa > man: no entry for inet_ntoa in section 9 of the manual.
Patrick is right, though. The behaviour is described under the BUGS section of the man page, which I happened to overlook: $ man inet_ntoa ... The string returned by inet_ntoa() resides in a static memory area. OpenBSD 4.6 December 9, 2008 4 $ Kind regards, --Toni++
