Removal of bogus gethostbyaddr_r()

Daniel Eischen eischen at vigrid.com
Wed Jun 18 11:17:31 PDT 2003


On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Terry Lambert wrote:

> Daniel Eischen wrote:
> > On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > > Any objections?
> > 
> > Why is this bogus?  Do we have another gethostbyaddr_r hiding
> > somewhere?
> 
> It lies?  (_r).

If that's true, then it's a bug and eventually should
be fixed.  Additionally, you can't go around removing
public interfaces without bumping library versions
(unless said interface hasn't seen a release yet).

-- 
Dan Eischen



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