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Date:      Tue, 17 Jul 2001 14:16:42 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.org>, Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@imasy.or.jp>, Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/libexec/talkd announce.c
Message-ID:  <20010717141642.C82317@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010716124149.A21211@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.org on Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 12:41:49PM -0700
References:  <nik@FreeBSD.org> <200107131741.f6DHfpW62643@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> <20010716192949.F51681@sunbay.com> <20010716124149.A21211@dragon.nuxi.com>

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On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 12:41:49PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 07:29:49PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> >  Only the Internet
> >  address format is currently understood.
> > +For these reasons, the
> > +.Xr getaddrinfo 3
> 
> You might mention IPv4 (or not IPv6) explicitly.  If I read that, I would
> think "hey I'm only coding for the Internet family, so why do I care
> about the warning".
> 
Because the use of a "static" memory area is also an issue for IPv4.
And POSIX 1003.1-200x recommends this as well (actually, I've simply
copied the above text from the draft).  Moreover, they say that the
gethostby*() functions may be deprecated in future POSIX releases.


Cheers,
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