2.2.0-alpha2 - inet_aton missing on ReliantUNIX

David Collier-Brown davecb at canada.sun.com
Thu Feb 1 15:12:06 GMT 2001


Michael Sweet wrote:
> 
> Toomas Soome wrote:
> > ...
> > same for solaris. I replaced it with inet_pton.
> 
> Please note: I don't think inet_pton() is universally available;
> from a quick survey of our machines:

>     Solaris 7     Yes, but not documented
>     Solaris 8     Yes, but not documented

	Oh boy is it not!

	Michael's right: do NOT use inet_pton: use the
	workaround, as discussed here previously. The 
	inet_ functions which Stephens recommends against
	using are **doomed** (;-))

--dave 
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