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From: Kurt H Maier <khm-9@intma.in>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] APE inconsistencies
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 13:41:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130329174148.GA98286@intma.in> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C0693EB5-7CF0-4333-95F0-F82DFAD56845@corpus-callosum.com>

On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 12:25:04PM -0500, Jeff Sickel wrote:
> 
> On Mar 29, 2013, at 12:20 PM, Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > the linux manual page describes hstrerror as obsolete
> 
> Which distro?  So many to choose from…
> 

It's sort of moot, since The Man wants you to stop using gethostbyname
and friends anyway.  They're marked as 'obsolete' because POSIX.1-2001
wants you to use getnameinfo et al. instead.

Anything using gethostbyname is probably going to want herror (and thus
hstrerror) to be there.

khm



  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-29 17:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-29 17:13 Jeff Sickel
2013-03-29 17:20 ` Charles Forsyth
2013-03-29 17:25   ` Jeff Sickel
2013-03-29 17:41     ` Kurt H Maier [this message]
2013-03-29 18:00       ` Charles Forsyth
2013-03-29 18:26         ` Jeff Sickel
2013-03-29 19:03           ` tlaronde
2013-03-29 19:12             ` Kurt H Maier
2013-03-29 20:10               ` tlaronde
2013-03-29 20:32                 ` Charles Forsyth
2013-03-30  2:37             ` a
2013-03-29 22:20           ` Lyndon Nerenberg

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