Hello Baruch,
On 07/03/2012 12:11 PM, Baruch Siach wrote:
> Hi Eial,
>
> On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 10:57:50AM +0300, Eial Czerwacki wrote:
>> I'd like to propose a new applet, gethostbyname.
>> all this applet does is to get a host name and return the first ip address.
>
> IMHO, this applet should be called 'host', just like the similarly named BIND
> utility.
>
ok, will change the name
> [snip]
>
>> +int gethostbyname_main(int argc, char **argv) MAIN_EXTERNALLY_VISIBLE;
>> +int gethostbyname_main(int argc, char **argv) {
>> + struct hostent *tmp = 0;
>> +
>> + if (argc < 2) {
>> + bb_show_usage();
>> + }
>> +
>> + tmp = gethostbyname(argv[1]);
>
> gethostbyname() is obsolete. Please use either current POSIX standard
> getaddrinfo() or INET_resolve() from libbb.
>
> baruch
>
ok, will work on this and resend the patch.
Thanks for the pointers.
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