(lib network) Should inet_aton be called instead of inet_addr ?

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On 2008 Sep 22, at 15:13, Matthias Kilian wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 07:45:48PM +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote:
>>> Reading http://linux.die.net/man/3/inet_addr I noticed that
>>> inet_addr is obsolete and inet_aton should be used because inet_addr
>>> indicates error by returning -1 which is a valid address  
>>> (255.255.255.0)
>>> as well.
>>> Don't know wether it's worth changing or wether inet_aton is  
>>> peresent on
>>> all systems
>>
>> It sounds like we shouldchange, although I too don't know how  
>> portable
>> inet_aton is.
>
> It isn't POSIX, but it's historically from 4.3BSD, so all the BSDs,
> MacOS X should support it, too. I also just verified that it's
> available on a good old IRIX 5.3 ;-)
>
> And since Solaris was originally based on BSD, it may have inet_aton,
> too. No idea about other systems.


Solaris 10+ probably does, but our Solaris 9 machines don't.  Linux  
and OSX have inet_aton.

(Solaris 2 is not based on BSD, but on AT&T System V.  For example, it  
didn't get real sockets until 2.6; before that they were emulated on  
top of System V streams.)

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