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From: Borsenkow Andrej <Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru>
To: "'Clint Adams'" <clint@zsh.org>, zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: RE: PATCH: tcp cleanup and breakage
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 14:42:11 +0400
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> getaddrinfo and getnameinfo are used instead of gethostbyname2,
> getipnodebyname, getservbyname, getprotobyname, inet_aton, inet_ntop,
> and other fun functions.  This means that zsh/net/tcp and zsh/zftp
> would be damn near useless on systems with broken or missing
> getaddrinfo() in the absence of compatibility functions/workarounds.
> 

Why?

-andrej