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To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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Subject: Re: Memory leak in getservbyXXX? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 12 Sep 97 22:00:50 PDT."
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Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 00:33:57 PDT
From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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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