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diff --git a/man3/getnameinfo.3 b/man3/getnameinfo.3 index 580a265..c1453ba 100644 --- a/man3/getnameinfo.3 +++ b/man3/getnameinfo.3 @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ .\" 2004-12-14, mtk, Added EAI_OVERFLOW error .\" 2004-12-14 Fixed description of error return .\" -.TH getnameinfo 3 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.TH getnameinfo 3 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7" .SH NAME getnameinfo \- address-to-name translation in protocol-independent manner .SH LIBRARY @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Standard C library .nf .B #include <sys/socket.h> .B #include <netdb.h> -.PP +.P .BI "int getnameinfo(const struct sockaddr *restrict " addr \ ", socklen_t " addrlen , .BI " char " host "[_Nullable restrict ." hostlen ], @@ -27,12 +27,12 @@ Standard C library .BI " socklen_t " servlen , .BI " int " flags ); .fi -.PP +.P .RS -4 Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see .BR feature_test_macros (7)): .RE -.PP +.P .BR getnameinfo (): .nf Since glibc 2.22: @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ but unlike those functions, .BR getnameinfo () is reentrant and allows programs to eliminate IPv4-versus-IPv6 dependencies. -.PP +.P The .I addr argument is a pointer to a generic socket address structure @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ respectively) into which .BR getnameinfo () places null-terminated strings containing the host and service names respectively. -.PP +.P The caller can specify that no hostname (or no service name) is required by providing a NULL .I host @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ argument or a zero argument. However, at least one of hostname or service name must be requested. -.PP +.P The .I flags argument modifies the behavior of @@ -140,7 +140,9 @@ converted from IDN format to the locale's encoding if necessary. ASCII-only names are not affected by the conversion, which makes this flag usable in existing programs and environments. .TP -.BR NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED ", " NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES +.B NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED +.TQ +.B NI_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 @@ -200,7 +202,7 @@ was too small. A system error occurred. The error code can be found in .IR errno . -.PP +.P The .BR gai_strerror (3) function translates these error codes to a human readable string, @@ -225,14 +227,13 @@ T{ .BR getnameinfo () T} Thread safety MT-Safe env locale .TE -.sp 1 .SH STANDARDS POSIX.1-2008. RFC\ 2553. .SH HISTORY glibc 2.1. POSIX.1-2001. -.PP +.P Before glibc 2.2, the .I hostlen and @@ -244,14 +245,14 @@ In order to assist the programmer in choosing reasonable sizes for the supplied buffers, .I <netdb.h> defines the constants -.PP +.P .in +4n .EX #define NI_MAXHOST 1025 #define NI_MAXSERV 32 .EE .in -.PP +.P Since glibc 2.8, these definitions are exposed only if suitable feature test macros are defined, namely: @@ -262,7 +263,7 @@ or (in glibc versions up to and including 2.19) .B _BSD_SOURCE or .BR _SVID_SOURCE . -.PP +.P The former is the constant .B MAXDNAME in recent versions of BIND's @@ -275,7 +276,7 @@ The following code tries to get the numeric hostname and service name, for a given socket address. Note that there is no hardcoded reference to a particular address family. -.PP +.P .in +4n .EX struct sockaddr *addr; /* input */ @@ -287,10 +288,10 @@ if (getnameinfo(addr, addrlen, hbuf, sizeof(hbuf), sbuf, printf("host=%s, serv=%s\en", hbuf, sbuf); .EE .in -.PP +.P The following version checks if the socket address has a reverse address mapping. -.PP +.P .in +4n .EX struct sockaddr *addr; /* input */ @@ -304,7 +305,7 @@ else printf("host=%s\en", hbuf); .EE .in -.PP +.P An example program using .BR getnameinfo () can be found in @@ -324,17 +325,17 @@ can be found in .BR services (5), .BR hostname (7), .BR named (8) -.PP +.P R.\& Gilligan, S.\& Thomson, J.\& Bound and W.\& Stevens, .IR "Basic Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6" , RFC\ 2553, March 1999. -.PP +.P Tatsuya Jinmei and Atsushi Onoe, .IR "An Extension of Format for IPv6 Scoped Addresses" , internet draft, work in progress .UR ftp://ftp.ietf.org\:/internet\-drafts\:/draft\-ietf\-ipngwg\-scopedaddr\-format\-02.txt .UE . -.PP +.P Craig Metz, .IR "Protocol Independence Using the Sockets API" , Proceedings of the freenix track: |