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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2013-09-04 09:18:39 +0200
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2013-09-04 09:18:39 +0200
commit7d0ec5b670e739f8030b04263325e605e5c935b0 (patch)
tree7473e9a85a2b5ddc66d7f5f02491829d46da45f2
parent930c9b6d235892b8f198ee1fa941fc99c2249a6f (diff)
gethostbyname.3: gai_strerror() is the modern replacement for herror() and hstrerror()
Reported-by: Jon Grant <jg@jguk.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
-rw-r--r--man3/gethostbyname.311
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/man3/gethostbyname.3 b/man3/gethostbyname.3
index 23a11bf7..9be2c28f 100644
--- a/man3/gethostbyname.3
+++ b/man3/gethostbyname.3
@@ -131,14 +131,17 @@ none
.PD
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
-.BR gethostbyname* ()
+.BR gethostbyname* (),
+.BR gethostbyaddr* (),
+.BR herror (),
and
-.BR gethostbyaddr* ()
+.BR hstrerror ()
functions are obsolete.
Applications should use
-.BR getaddrinfo (3)
+.BR getaddrinfo (3),
+.BR getnameinfo (3),
and
-.BR getnameinfo (3)
+.BR gai_strerror (3)
instead.
The