From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 15 04:54:55 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id EAA24295 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 15 Dec 1996 04:54:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from bowden.uces.bangor.ac.uk (bowden.uces.bangor.ac.uk [147.143.15.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id EAA24290 for ; Sun, 15 Dec 1996 04:54:52 -0800 (PST) Received: by bowden.uces.bangor.ac.uk (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA12471; Sun, 15 Dec 1996 12:54:49 GMT From: t.p.crummey@uces.bangor.ac.uk (Tom Crummey) Message-Id: <199612151254.MAA12471@bowden.uces.bangor.ac.uk> Subject: Why has INADDR_LOOPBACK been removed from in.h? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 12:54:49 +0000 (GMT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, I'm running 2.2-current (from April 96) and have found that the constant INADDR_LOOPBACK is not presnt in /usr/include/netinet/in.h. What was the reason for its removal? -- Tom. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Crummey, EMAIL: tom@uces.bangor.ac.uk | /\ University of Wales, Bangor, | / \/\ Unit for Coastal and Estuarine Studies, | /\/ \ \ Ynys Faelog, Menai Bridge, TEL: +44 (0)1248 713808 |/ ======\=\ Gwynedd, LL59 5EY, U.K. FAX: +44 (0)1248 716729 | B A N G O R ----------------------------------------------------------------------------