Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 14:16:42 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.org>, Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@imasy.or.jp>, Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/libexec/talkd announce.c Message-ID: <20010717141642.C82317@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <20010716124149.A21211@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.org on Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 12:41:49PM -0700 References: <nik@FreeBSD.org> <200107131741.f6DHfpW62643@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> <20010716192949.F51681@sunbay.com> <20010716124149.A21211@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 12:41:49PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 07:29:49PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > Only the Internet > > address format is currently understood. > > +For these reasons, the > > +.Xr getaddrinfo 3 > > You might mention IPv4 (or not IPv6) explicitly. If I read that, I would > think "hey I'm only coding for the Internet family, so why do I care > about the warning". > Because the use of a "static" memory area is also an issue for IPv4. And POSIX 1003.1-200x recommends this as well (actually, I've simply copied the above text from the draft). Moreover, they say that the gethostby*() functions may be deprecated in future POSIX releases. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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