On Mar 29, 2013, at 1:00 PM, Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com> wrote:

On 29 March 2013 17:41, Kurt H Maier <khm-9@intma.in> wrote:

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

I see, although it seems herror/hstrerror is usually ifdef'd out, even when gethostbyname remains!

Though if I check recent FreeBSD manuals, it's all there. And given that

this is part of the BSD extensions to APE, those might be more relevant

than the Linux man pages. Not that BSD tries to be POSIX compliant

any more or less than GNU/Linux.

There are definitely some issues in gethostbyaddr() that are being

looked into at this time. But while the review is taking place, it doesn't

hurt to look at other potential areas of a mismatch.