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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-05-24 04:52:22 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-05-24 04:52:22 +0000 |
commit | 3d08cd331c1adcf0d917392f7e527b3f00511748 (patch) | |
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parent | Adding debian version 6.7-2. (diff) | |
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Merging upstream version 6.8.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/man/man3/ether_aton.3 b/man/man3/ether_aton.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dbc6c2f --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man3/ether_aton.3 @@ -0,0 +1,143 @@ +'\" t +.\" Copyright 2002 Ian Redfern (redferni@logica.com) +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft +.\" +.\" References consulted: +.\" Linux libc source code +.\" FreeBSD 4.4 man pages +.\" +.\" Minor additions, aeb, 2013-06-21 +.\" +.TH ether_aton 3 2024-05-02 "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" +.SH NAME +ether_aton, ether_ntoa, ether_ntohost, ether_hostton, ether_line, +ether_ntoa_r, ether_aton_r \- Ethernet address manipulation routines +.SH LIBRARY +Standard C library +.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include <netinet/ether.h> +.P +.BI "char *ether_ntoa(const struct ether_addr *" addr ); +.BI "struct ether_addr *ether_aton(const char *" asc ); +.P +.BI "int ether_ntohost(char *" hostname ", const struct ether_addr *" addr ); +.BI "int ether_hostton(const char *" hostname ", struct ether_addr *" addr ); +.P +.BI "int ether_line(const char *" line ", struct ether_addr *" addr , +.BI " char *" hostname ); +.P +/* GNU extensions */ +.BI "char *ether_ntoa_r(const struct ether_addr *" addr ", char *" buf ); +.P +.BI "struct ether_addr *ether_aton_r(const char *" asc , +.BI " struct ether_addr *" addr ); +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +.BR ether_aton () +converts the 48-bit Ethernet host address +.I asc +from the standard hex-digits-and-colons notation into binary data in +network byte order and returns a pointer to it in a statically +allocated buffer, which subsequent calls will +overwrite. +.BR ether_aton () +returns NULL if the address is invalid. +.P +The +.BR ether_ntoa () +function converts the Ethernet host address +.I addr +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. +.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. +.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. +.P +The +.BR ether_line () +function parses a line in +.I /etc/ethers +format (ethernet address followed by whitespace followed by +hostname; \[aq]#\[aq] introduces a comment) and returns an address +and hostname pair, or nonzero if it cannot be parsed. +The buffer pointed to by +.I hostname +must be sufficiently long, for example, have the same length as +.IR line . +.P +The functions +.BR ether_ntoa_r () +and +.BR ether_aton_r () +are reentrant +thread-safe versions of +.BR ether_ntoa () +and +.BR ether_aton () +respectively, and do not use static buffers. +.P +The structure +.I ether_addr +is defined in +.I <net/ethernet.h> +as: +.P +.in +4n +.EX +struct ether_addr { + uint8_t ether_addr_octet[6]; +} +.EE +.in +.SH ATTRIBUTES +For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see +.BR attributes (7). +.TS +allbox; +lbx lb lb +l l l. +Interface Attribute Value +T{ +.na +.nh +.BR ether_aton (), +.BR ether_ntoa () +T} Thread safety MT-Unsafe +T{ +.na +.nh +.BR ether_ntohost (), +.BR ether_hostton (), +.BR ether_line (), +.BR ether_ntoa_r (), +.BR ether_aton_r () +T} Thread safety MT-Safe +.TE +.SH STANDARDS +None. +.SH HISTORY +4.3BSD, SunOS. +.SH BUGS +In glibc 2.2.5 and earlier, the implementation of +.BR ether_line () +.\" The fix was presumably commit c0a0f9a32c8baa6ab93d00eb42d92c02e9e146d7 +.\" which was in glibc 2.3 +is broken. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR ethers (5) |