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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: inet_pton(3) Does Not Replace inet_aton(3)
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<<On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 12:33:01 -0800, "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> said:

> Where inet_pton(3) will fail (return a 1). That is, inet_pton(3) only
> understands dotted quads. The comments in src/lib/libc/net/inet_pton.c
> clearly show this is the intended behavior. But is that what we want?

Yes.  The old format is deprecated, obsolete, legacy, however you want
to put it.

-GAWollman


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