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diff --git a/gnulib b/gnulib deleted file mode 160000 -Subproject 4fc10daa05477586fea99b6b3ca02a87d1102fa diff --git a/gnulib/doc/inet_ntoa.texi b/gnulib/doc/inet_ntoa.texi new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5f0e2991 --- /dev/null +++ b/gnulib/doc/inet_ntoa.texi @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +@node inet_ntoa +@section inet_ntoa +@findex inet_ntoa + +@c Copyright (C) 2005, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + +@c Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document +@c under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or +@c any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no +@c Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover +@c Texts. A copy of the license is included in the ``GNU Free +@c Documentation License'' file as part of this distribution. + +The @code{inet_ntoa} function need not be reentrant, and consequently +is not required to be thread safe. Implementations of +@code{inet_ntoa} typically write the time stamp into static buffer. +If two threads call @code{inet_ntoa} at roughly the same time, you +might end up with the wrong date in one of the threads, or some +undefined string. Further, @code{inet_ntoa} is specific for +@acronym{IPv4} addresses. + +A protocol independent function is @code{inet_ntop}. |