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From: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>
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Cc: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>, current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: RFC: libkern version of inet_ntoa_r
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Hi,

On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Bjoern A. Zeeb
<bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net> wrote:
> Which again leaves me with the question - why does libc have it?
>
as for the semantic, theoretical, "why", I would refer you to the
POSIX's comity, as inet_ntop() is part of it.

 - Arnaud