struct hostent *gethostent()
2007-12-25 8:03:00
#I have a simple little program here, that uses this function.
#Does anybody know where sun put it? Linking seem to blow up.
I got responses from:
From: Gustavo Vegas <gustavo@ece.concordia.CA>
From: Casper Dik <casper@fwi.uva.nl>
From: msolda@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu (m solda)
From: phil@dgbt.doc.ca (Phil Blanchfield)
From: guy@auspex.com (Guy Harris)
From: Mitchum DSouza <mitchum.dsouza@mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk>
From: Dieter Muller <dworkin@rootgroup.com>
From: luis@ifi.unicamp.br (Luis Henrique Guilherme Rosalino - esp)
From: "Brian H. Powell" <brian@natinst.com>
From: Roger Hale <roger@sst.ll.mit.edu>
From: unisql!wrat@cs.utexas.edu (Louis Marco)
From: ups!kalli!kevin@fourx.Aus.Sun.COM (Kevin Sheehan {Consulting Poster Child})
From: Christian.Peter@uluru.Aus.Sun.COM (Christian Peter - SUN Sydney - Software Support)
Most were correct.
The answer is simple: I had installed the DNS stuff, but did not
know that this removed the gethostent function. A simple little
fix fixed this.
--Toby.
PS: My fix was a simple little routine, added to libc, that
printed out: "FIX ME TO USE DNS!", neat, eh?
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