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Diffstat (limited to 'upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man3/getaddrinfo.3')
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1 files changed, 27 insertions, 26 deletions
diff --git a/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man3/getaddrinfo.3 b/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man3/getaddrinfo.3 index 805ce104..143edeaf 100644 --- a/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man3/getaddrinfo.3 +++ b/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man3/getaddrinfo.3 @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ .\" FIXME . glibc's 2.9 NEWS file documents DCCP and UDP-lite support .\" and is SCTP support now also there? .\" -.TH getaddrinfo 3 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.TH getaddrinfo 3 2024-05-02 "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" .SH NAME getaddrinfo, freeaddrinfo, gai_strerror \- network address and service translation @@ -34,22 +34,22 @@ Standard C library .B #include <sys/types.h> .B #include <sys/socket.h> .B #include <netdb.h> -.PP +.P .BI "int getaddrinfo(const char *restrict " node , .BI " const char *restrict " service , .BI " const struct addrinfo *restrict " hints , .BI " struct addrinfo **restrict " res ); -.PP +.P .BI "void freeaddrinfo(struct addrinfo *" res ); -.PP +.P .BI "const char *gai_strerror(int " errcode ); .fi -.PP +.P .RS -4 Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see .BR feature_test_macros (7)): .RE -.PP +.P .BR getaddrinfo (), .BR freeaddrinfo (), .BR gai_strerror (): @@ -84,13 +84,13 @@ and functions into a single interface, but unlike the latter functions, .BR getaddrinfo () is reentrant and allows programs to eliminate IPv4-versus-IPv6 dependencies. -.PP +.P The .I addrinfo structure used by .BR getaddrinfo () contains the following fields: -.PP +.P .in +4n .EX struct addrinfo { @@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ struct addrinfo { }; .EE .in -.PP +.P The .I hints argument points to an @@ -160,11 +160,11 @@ any protocol can be returned by .I ai_flags This field specifies additional options, described below. Multiple flags are specified by bitwise OR-ing them together. -.PP +.P All the other fields in the structure pointed to by .I hints must contain either 0 or a null pointer, as appropriate. -.PP +.P Specifying .I hints as NULL is equivalent to setting @@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ must be a numerical network address. The .B AI_NUMERICHOST flag suppresses any potentially lengthy network host address lookups. -.PP +.P If the .B AI_PASSIVE flag is specified in @@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ If is not NULL, then the .B AI_PASSIVE flag is ignored. -.PP +.P If the .B AI_PASSIVE flag is not set in @@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ for IPv4 addresses, for IPv6 address); this is used by applications that intend to communicate with peers running on the same host. -.PP +.P .I service sets the port in each returned address structure. If this argument is a service name (see @@ -267,13 +267,13 @@ is not NULL, then must point to a string containing a numeric port number. This flag is used to inhibit the invocation of a name resolution service in cases where it is known not to be required. -.PP +.P Either .I node or .IR service , but not both, may be NULL. -.PP +.P The .BR getaddrinfo () function allocates and initializes a linked list of @@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ and returns a pointer to the start of the list in The items in the linked list are linked by the .I ai_next field. -.PP +.P There are several reasons why the linked list may have more than one .I addrinfo @@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ is defined in RFC\ 3484; the order can be tweaked for a particular system by editing .I /etc/gai.conf (available since glibc 2.5). -.PP +.P If .I hints.ai_flags includes the @@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ official name of the host. .\" structure was set pointing to the canonical name; that was .\" more than POSIX.1-2001 specified, or other implementations provided. .\" MTK, Aug 05 -.PP +.P The remaining fields of each returned .I addrinfo structure are initialized as follows: @@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ field, and the length of the socket address, in bytes, is placed in the .I ai_addrlen field. -.PP +.P If .I hints.ai_flags includes the @@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ does not return IPv6 socket addresses that would always fail in .BR connect (2) or .BR bind (2). -.PP +.P If .I hints.ai_flags specifies the @@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ in the list pointed to by is ignored if .B AI_V4MAPPED is not also specified. -.PP +.P The .BR freeaddrinfo () function frees the memory that was allocated @@ -462,7 +462,9 @@ The resulting string is encoded using the current locale's encoding. .\"If no component of the returned name starts with xn\-\- the IDN .\"step can be skipped, therefore avoiding unnecessary slowdowns. .TP -.BR AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED ", " AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES +.B AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED +.TQ +.B AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES Setting these flags will enable the IDNA_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED (allow unassigned Unicode code points) and IDNA_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES (check output to make sure it is a STD3 @@ -499,7 +501,7 @@ contains invalid flags; or, included .B AI_CANONNAME and -.I name +.I node was NULL. .TP .B EAI_FAIL @@ -570,7 +572,7 @@ respectively). Other system error; .I errno is set to indicate the error. -.PP +.P The .BR gai_strerror () function translates these error codes to a human readable string, @@ -597,7 +599,6 @@ T{ .BR gai_strerror () T} Thread safety MT-Safe .TE -.sp 1 .SH VERSIONS According to POSIX.1, specifying .\" POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008 |