addr2ascii() to be retired ?

[Bjoern A. Zeeb]

On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> I noticed while hunting around for what eventually proved to be
> getnameinfo() that addr2ascii() is not used anywhere in our tree.
>
> Was that API ever used anywhere but in INRIAs IPv6 ?

I think it was part of earlier drafts of RFC 2133 which now is 3493.
We have inet_ntop instead now[1].

> Should we discontinue it ?

+1


[1] http://www3.ietf.org/proceedings/96jun/area.and.wg.reports/int/ipng-minutes-96jun.html

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