On 08/12/13 00:04, Jon Grant wrote: > Hello > > Where on this page it talks about obsolete herror() and hstrerror(), > could it highlight the functions that should be used instead. I am not > sure what is the replacement, but pehaps it would return > HOST_NOT_FOUND as a string? > > http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/gethostbyname.3.html Hi Jon, I applied the patch below. Cheers, Michael diff --git a/man3/gethostbyname.3 b/man3/gethostbyname.3 index 23a11bf..9be2c28 100644 --- a/man3/gethostbyname.3 +++ b/man3/gethostbyname.3 @@ -131,14 +131,17 @@ none .PD .SH DESCRIPTION The -.BR gethostbyname* () +.BR gethostbyname* (), +.BR gethostbyaddr* (), +.BR herror (), and -.BR gethostbyaddr* () +.BR hstrerror () functions are obsolete. Applications should use -.BR getaddrinfo (3) +.BR getaddrinfo (3), +.BR getnameinfo (3), and -.BR getnameinfo (3) +.BR gai_strerror (3) instead. The -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
