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| author | mlaier <mlaier@FreeBSD.org> | 2007-03-21 05:46:18 +0000 |
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| committer | mlaier <mlaier@FreeBSD.org> | 2007-03-21 05:46:18 +0000 |
| commit | 4cb223184a79d34c2f19e794fe126be7560b97d9 (patch) | |
| tree | 58bd79027dee50549347ee459e16e0d2ae12bbd0 /lib/libc/net/inet.3 | |
| parent | b3b2407aa0a0e34841c12870ec383191f66c1236 (diff) | |
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Let people in on the magic of INET[6]_ADDRSTRLEN which comes quite handy in
combination with inet_ntop().
Reviewed by: trhodes "works for me"
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/net/inet.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/net/inet.3 | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/net/inet.3 b/lib/libc/net/inet.3 index d1975a8..d721d9e 100644 --- a/lib/libc/net/inet.3 +++ b/lib/libc/net/inet.3 @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ .\" From: @(#)inet.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd February 28, 2007 +.Dd March 21, 2007 .Dt INET 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -126,6 +126,11 @@ The .Fa size argument specifies the size, in bytes, of the buffer .Fa *dst . +.Dv INET_ADDRSTRLEN +and +.Dv INET6_ADDRSTRLEN +define the maximum size required to convert an address of the respective +type. It returns NULL if a system error occurs (in which case, .Va errno will have been set), or it returns a pointer to the destination string. |
