Hello Jonny, On 15 October 2014 at 00:34, Jonny Grant <jg@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello > Just looking at this page: > > http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/gethostbyname.3.html > > NO_ADDRESS or NO_DATA > The requested name is valid but does not have an IP address. > > These macros are actually the same value, is there a good way to > explain that? i.e. no way to have a switch for both. > > perhaps just say NO_DATA, then add the following for compatibility? > > #define NO_ADDRESS NO_DATA > > Regards, Jonny I added this sentence: The constant NO_ADDRESS is a synonym for NO_DATA. Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- 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
