Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 16:52:59 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: inet_pton(3) Does Not Replace inet_aton(3) Message-ID: <20011128165259.F3985@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <200111281731.fASHV9948068@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu on Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 12:31:09PM -0500 References: <20011127123301.B3788@gohan.cjclark.org> <200111281731.fASHV9948068@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 12:31:09PM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 12:33:01 -0800, "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> said:
>
> > Where inet_pton(3) will fail (return a 1). That is, inet_pton(3) only
> > understands dotted quads. The comments in src/lib/libc/net/inet_pton.c
> > clearly show this is the intended behavior. But is that what we want?
>
> Yes. The old format is deprecated, obsolete, legacy, however you want
> to put it.
OK. But I think it should be documented.
Index: inet.3
===================================================================
RCS file: /export/ncvs/src/lib/libc/net/inet.3,v
retrieving revision 1.19
diff -u -r1.19 inet.3
--- inet.3 1 Oct 2001 16:08:55 -0000 1.19
+++ inet.3 29 Nov 2001 00:47:28 -0000
@@ -203,6 +203,14 @@
otherwise, the number is interpreted as decimal).
.Pp
The
+.Fn inet_pton
+function only understands Internet addresses written as dotted quads.
+Each
+.Dq part
+may only contain numeric characters and is always interpreted as a
+decimal value.
+.Pp
+The
.Fn inet_aton
and
.Fn inet_ntoa
--
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