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Chapter 38. TCP/IP Library Reference
kit.
STANDARDS
The getaddrinfo() function is defined in IEEE POSIX 1003.1g draft speci-
fication, and documented in “Basic Socket Interface Extensions for
IPv6” (RFC2553).
BUGS
The current implementation is not thread-safe.
The text was shamelessly copied from RFC2553.
BSD May 25, 1995 BSD
gethostbyname
GETHOSTBYNAME(3) System Library Functions Manual GETHOSTBYNAME(3)
NAME
gethostbyname, gethostbyname2, gethostbyaddr, gethostent, sethostent,
endhostent, hstrerror, herror - get network host entry
SYNOPSIS
#include < netdb.h>
extern int h_errno;
struct hostent *
gethostbyname(const char *name);
struct hostent *
gethostbyname2(const char *name, int af);
struct hostent *
gethostbyaddr(const char *addr, int len, int af);
struct hostent *
gethostent(void);
void
sethostent(int stayopen);
void
endhostent(void);
void
herror(const char *string);
const char *
hstrerror(int err);
DESCRIPTION
The gethostbyname() and gethostbyaddr() functions each return a pointer
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