On 2002-04-16 at 17:00 +0100, Philip Hazel wrote:
> Why are there so darn many of these functions? I had heard of
Do you really want that answered? ;^)
> gethostbyname2(), but I think that is obsolete. Solaris doesn't have it.
> I haven't previously heard of get{addr,name}info().
OpenBSD manual page for getaddrinfo() notes:
STANDARDS
The getaddrinfo() function is defined in IEEE POSIX 1003.1g draft speci-
fication, and documented in ``Basic Socket Interface Extensions for
IPv6'' (RFC2553).
Similarly for getnameinfo().
KAME have a guide "Implementing AF-independent application":
<URL:
http://www.kame.net/newsletter/19980604/>
and since KAME is the basis of the IPv6 stuff in *BSD ...
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