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To: t.p.crummey@uces.bangor.ac.uk (Tom Crummey)
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Subject: Re: Why has INADDR_LOOPBACK been removed from in.h? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 15 Dec 1996 12:54:49 GMT."
             <199612151254.MAA12471@bowden.uces.bangor.ac.uk> 
From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 06:13:30 -0800
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>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?

   As far as I'm aware, that hasn't been present in in.h since 4.3BSD...and
perhaps never was. I guess the real question is why do you think it should be
in there?

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project