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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-15 19:41:07 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-15 19:41:07 +0000 |
commit | 3af6d22bb3850ab2bac67287e3a3d3b0e32868e5 (patch) | |
tree | 3ee7a3ec64525911fa865bb984c86d997d855527 /man3/gethostbyname.3 | |
parent | Adding debian version 6.05.01-1. (diff) | |
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Merging upstream version 6.7.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/man3/gethostbyname.3 b/man3/gethostbyname.3 index 620d492..01cc0f7 100644 --- a/man3/gethostbyname.3 +++ b/man3/gethostbyname.3 @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ .\" Modified 2002-08-05, Michael Kerrisk .\" Modified 2004-10-31, Andries Brouwer .\" -.TH gethostbyname 3 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.TH gethostbyname 3 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7" .SH NAME gethostbyname, gethostbyaddr, sethostent, gethostent, endhostent, h_errno, @@ -30,31 +30,31 @@ Standard C library .SH SYNOPSIS .nf .B #include <netdb.h> -.PP +.P .BI "void sethostent(int " stayopen ); .B void endhostent(void); -.PP +.P .B [[deprecated]] extern int h_errno; -.PP +.P .BI "[[deprecated]] struct hostent *gethostbyname(const char *" name ); .BI "[[deprecated]] struct hostent *gethostbyaddr(const void " addr [. len ], .BI " socklen_t " len ", int " type ); -.PP +.P .BI "[[deprecated]] void herror(const char *" s ); .BI "[[deprecated]] const char *hstrerror(int " err ); -.PP +.P /* System V/POSIX extension */ .B struct hostent *gethostent(void); -.PP +.P /* GNU extensions */ .B [[deprecated]] .BI "struct hostent *gethostbyname2(const char *" name ", int " af ); -.PP +.P .BI "int gethostent_r(struct hostent *restrict " ret , .BI " char " buf "[restrict ." buflen "], size_t " buflen , .BI " struct hostent **restrict " result , .BI " int *restrict " h_errnop ); -.PP +.P .B [[deprecated]] .BI "int gethostbyaddr_r(const void " addr "[restrict ." len "], socklen_t " len , .BI " int " type , @@ -75,12 +75,12 @@ Standard C library .BI " struct hostent **restrict " result , .BI " int *restrict " h_errnop ); .fi -.PP +.P .RS -4 Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see .BR feature_test_macros (7)): .RE -.PP +.P .BR gethostbyname2 (), .BR gethostent_r (), .BR gethostbyaddr_r (), @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see glibc up to and including 2.19: _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE .fi -.PP +.P .BR herror (), .BR hstrerror (): .nf @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see Before glibc 2.8: none .fi -.PP +.P .BR h_errno : .nf Since glibc 2.19 @@ -127,19 +127,19 @@ Applications should use and .BR gai_strerror (3) instead. -.PP +.P The .BR sethostent () function specifies, if \fIstayopen\fP is true (1), that a connected TCP socket should be used for the name server queries and that the connection should remain open during successive queries. Otherwise, name server queries will use UDP datagrams. -.PP +.P The .BR endhostent () function ends the use of a TCP connection for name server queries. -.PP +.P The .BR gethostbyname () function returns a structure of type @@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ will first be searched for for the file format). The current domain and its parents are searched unless \fIname\fP ends in a dot. -.PP +.P The .BR gethostbyaddr () function returns a structure of type \fIhostent\fP @@ -196,17 +196,17 @@ obtained via a call to .BR inet_addr (3)) for address type .BR AF_INET . -.PP +.P The (obsolete) .BR herror () function prints the error message associated with the current value of \fIh_errno\fP on \fIstderr\fP. -.PP +.P The (obsolete) .BR hstrerror () function takes an error number (typically \fIh_errno\fP) and returns the corresponding message string. -.PP +.P The domain name queries carried out by .BR gethostbyname () and @@ -224,15 +224,15 @@ configured sources, failing that, a local name server The .BR nsswitch.conf (5) file is the modern way of controlling the order of host lookups. -.PP +.P In glibc 2.4 and earlier, the .I order keyword was used to control the order of host lookups as defined in .I /etc/host.conf .RB ( host.conf (5)). -.PP +.P The \fIhostent\fP structure is defined in \fI<netdb.h>\fP as follows: -.PP +.P .in +4n .EX struct hostent { @@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ struct hostent { #define h_addr h_addr_list[0] /* for backward compatibility */ .EE .in -.PP +.P The members of the \fIhostent\fP structure are: .TP .I h_name @@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ T{ .BR gethostbyname2_r () T} Thread safety MT-Safe env locale .TE -.sp 1 +.P In the above table, .I hostent in @@ -445,7 +445,7 @@ later calls. Copying the .I struct hostent does not suffice, since it contains pointers; a deep copy is required. -.PP +.P In the original BSD implementation the .I len argument @@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ POSIX.1-2001 makes it which is OK.) See also .BR accept (2). -.PP +.P The BSD prototype for .BR gethostbyaddr () uses @@ -498,7 +498,7 @@ glibc2 also has a that works like .BR gethostbyname (), but permits to specify the address family to which the address must belong. -.PP +.P glibc2 also has reentrant versions .BR gethostent_r (), .BR gethostbyaddr_r (), |