Re: gethostbyname

["Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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

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