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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-06-17 10:51:52 +0000
committerDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-06-17 10:51:52 +0000
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Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/upstream/debian-unstable/man3/ether_aton.3 b/upstream/debian-unstable/man3/ether_aton.3
index 973566b1..ca576395 100644
--- a/upstream/debian-unstable/man3/ether_aton.3
+++ b/upstream/debian-unstable/man3/ether_aton.3
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
.\"
.\" Minor additions, aeb, 2013-06-21
.\"
-.TH ether_aton 3 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01"
+.TH ether_aton 3 2024-05-02 "Linux man-pages 6.8"
.SH NAME
ether_aton, ether_ntoa, ether_ntohost, ether_hostton, ether_line,
ether_ntoa_r, ether_aton_r \- Ethernet address manipulation routines
@@ -19,19 +19,19 @@ Standard C library
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B #include <netinet/ether.h>
-.PP
+.P
.BI "char *ether_ntoa(const struct ether_addr *" addr );
.BI "struct ether_addr *ether_aton(const char *" asc );
-.PP
+.P
.BI "int ether_ntohost(char *" hostname ", const struct ether_addr *" addr );
.BI "int ether_hostton(const char *" hostname ", struct ether_addr *" addr );
-.PP
+.P
.BI "int ether_line(const char *" line ", struct ether_addr *" addr ,
.BI " char *" hostname );
-.PP
+.P
/* GNU extensions */
.BI "char *ether_ntoa_r(const struct ether_addr *" addr ", char *" buf );
-.PP
+.P
.BI "struct ether_addr *ether_aton_r(const char *" asc ,
.BI " struct ether_addr *" addr );
.fi
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ allocated buffer, which subsequent calls will
overwrite.
.BR ether_aton ()
returns NULL if the address is invalid.
-.PP
+.P
The
.BR ether_ntoa ()
function converts the Ethernet host address
@@ -54,21 +54,21 @@ given in network byte order to a string in standard
hex-digits-and-colons notation, omitting leading zeros.
The string is returned in a statically allocated buffer,
which subsequent calls will overwrite.
-.PP
+.P
The
.BR ether_ntohost ()
function maps an Ethernet address to the
corresponding hostname in
.I /etc/ethers
and returns nonzero if it cannot be found.
-.PP
+.P
The
.BR ether_hostton ()
function maps a hostname to the
corresponding Ethernet address in
.I /etc/ethers
and returns nonzero if it cannot be found.
-.PP
+.P
The
.BR ether_line ()
function parses a line in
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ The buffer pointed to by
.I hostname
must be sufficiently long, for example, have the same length as
.IR line .
-.PP
+.P
The functions
.BR ether_ntoa_r ()
and
@@ -91,13 +91,13 @@ thread-safe versions of
and
.BR ether_aton ()
respectively, and do not use static buffers.
-.PP
+.P
The structure
.I ether_addr
is defined in
.I <net/ethernet.h>
as:
-.PP
+.P
.in +4n
.EX
struct ether_addr {
@@ -129,7 +129,6 @@ T{
.BR ether_aton_r ()
T} Thread safety MT-Safe
.TE
-.sp 1
.SH STANDARDS
None.
.SH HISTORY