From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Jan 10 10:10:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38FBD37B69B for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 10:10:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0AIA5R10014; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 10:10:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 10:10:05 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200101101810.f0AIA5R10014@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Cc: From: Ben Smithurst Subject: Re: docs/24225: Useless gethostbyaddr man page Reply-To: Ben Smithurst Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR docs/24225; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Ben Smithurst To: Joakim Henriksson 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. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message