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Date:      Fri, 3 Mar 2006 20:45:12 +0200
From:      Rostislav Krasny <rosti.bsd@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   gethostbyaddr()
Message-ID:  <20060303204512.50b7f709.rosti.bsd@gmail.com>

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Hi,

IEEE Std 1003.1 has following gethostbyaddr() prototype:

struct hostent *gethostbyaddr(const void *addr, socklen_t len, int type);

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/gethostbyaddr.html

However FreeBSD has differnet prototype of that function:

struct hostent *gethostbyaddr(const char *addr, int len, int type);

As you can see, types of first two arguments are different. Is there a
good reason for that and could the gethostbyaddr() prototype be adjusted?



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