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Subject: Re: Memory leak in getservbyXXX? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 13 Sep 1997 00:33:57 PDT."
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Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 17:51:55 +0930
From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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> Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> wrote:
> >This contradicts the documentation, which claims that the (port) 
> >argument is an int.
> 
> Presumably because of historical argument promotion.  Does anyone
> actually pass shorts as shorts?

Good question.  Probably not, but having the argument typed correctly 
would help in the age of ANSI compilers.

> >It should be htonl().
> 
> Nope.  Port numbers are 16 bits.

Then this counts as a PR against the manpage?

mike