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Date:      Sat, 13 Sep 1997 00:33:57 PDT
From:      Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>, hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Memory leak in getservbyXXX? 
Message-ID:  <97Sep13.003407pdt.177486@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 12 Sep 97 22:00:50 PDT." <199709130500.OAA00675@word.smith.net.au> 

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Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> wrote:
>This contradicts the documentation, which claims that the (port) 
>argument is an int.

Presumably because of historical argument promotion.  Does anyone
actually pass shorts as shorts?

>It should be htonl().

Nope.  Port numbers are 16 bits.

  Bill



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