addr2ascii() to be retired ?

[Hajimu UMEMOTO]

Hi,

>>>>> On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 10:07:57 +0000 (UTC)
>>>>> "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists at lists.zabbadoz.net> said:

bzeeb> 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 ?

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

Yes, we don't use it from anywhere in our tree.

> Should we discontinue it ?

bzeeb> +1

+1

However, it seems addr2ascii() supports AF_LINK which our
getnameinfo() doesn't support.  Since NetBSD's getnameinfo() supports
AF_LINK, it may better to take it from NetBSD.

Sincerely,

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