From: Ian Pilcher <arequipeno@gmail.com>
To: tomas@tuxteam.de
Cc: libc-help@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: inet_net_pton() alternative for IPv6
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2022 18:58:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8698a1da-4656-0450-fac3-c7b7fc422903@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YsMwOLQHDHYdqscY@tuxteam.de>
On 7/4/22 13:23, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> I never tried it, but this is what my version [1] of the libc docs say:
>
> -- Function: int inet_pton (int AF, const char *CP, void *BUF)
>
> Preliminary: | MT-Safe locale | AS-Safe | AC-Safe | *Note POSIX
> Safety Concepts::.
>
> This function converts an Internet address (either IPv4 or IPv6)
> from presentation (textual) to network (binary) format. AF should
> be either ‘AF_INET’ or ‘AF_INET6’, as appropriate for the type of
> address being converted. CP is a pointer to the input string, and
> BUF is a pointer to a buffer for the result. It is the caller’s
> responsibility to make sure the buffer is large enough.
You're looking at the wrong function. inet_pton() does support IPv6;
inet_net_pton() does not (even though its interface is designed in a
way that it could accomodate it).
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-05 23:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-04 18:07 Ian Pilcher
2022-07-04 18:23 ` tomas
2022-07-05 23:58 ` Ian Pilcher [this message]
2022-07-06 5:04 ` tomas
2022-07-04 18:34 ` Florian Weimer
2022-07-04 19:34 ` Ian Pilcher
2022-07-04 19:57 ` Florian Weimer
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