Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 10:10:05 -0800 (PST) From: Ben Smithurst <ben@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/24225: Useless gethostbyaddr man page Message-ID: <200101101810.f0AIA5R10014@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/24225; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org>
To: Joakim Henriksson <murduth@ludd.luth.se>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/24225: Useless gethostbyaddr man page
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 15:41:07 +0000
Joakim Henriksson wrote:
> The manual page for gethostbyaddr does not even describe what the arguments
> should be.
struct hostent *
gethostbyaddr(const char *addr, int len, int type)
An address, a length, a type. What more do you want? ;-)
Oh, ok, I might see if I can come up with anything, depends how busy I
am...
> Steal from linux
Oh. My. God.
One thing I like about FreeBSD is its useful manual pages, so I don't
think copying one from Linux would be a great idea.
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