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| author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2003-03-30 08:31:53 +0000 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2003-03-30 08:31:53 +0000 |
| commit | ef5a6dd776ac4bf49f73d33c2c15049c102661c0 (patch) | |
| tree | a90832ff6ed62ee440a41d6b8f9aeb5f1591d924 /pod/perlport.pod | |
| parent | d89fc664c30eab1bd50f084f75c9996f69a7b7d0 (diff) | |
| download | perl-ef5a6dd776ac4bf49f73d33c2c15049c102661c0.tar.gz | |
gethostbyname('localhost') is not that portable.
inet_aton('localhost') in IRIX 5.3 returned an undef,
which in turn made pack_sockaddr_in to barf on zero
length in_addr.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19084
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlport.pod b/pod/perlport.pod index d74c0da306..b6aca781de 100644 --- a/pod/perlport.pod +++ b/pod/perlport.pod @@ -1636,6 +1636,11 @@ Not implemented. (S<Mac OS>, Win32, VM/ESA) Not implemented. (S<Mac OS>, Win32, VMS, VM/ESA) +=item gethostbyname + +C<gethostbyname('localhost')> does not work everywhere: you may have +to use C<gethostbyname('127.0.0.1')>. (S<Mac OS>, S<Irix 5>) + =item gethostent Not implemented. (S<Mac OS>, Win32) |