Hi all !
I've got a user-space question for you :
(This is sort of embarassing to ask, but a friend borrowed my SYSV book
and the glibc info is of little use...)
I have this program that looks up IP addresses of hosts based on their names in
DNS. I use gethostbyname().
gethostbyname() returns a pointer to a struct hostent so far so good. But
should I free that structure when I'm done ? Or should the next call to
gethostbyname() free the previously allocated structure ? (it seems as though
it doesn't).
If I should free it, then how do I accomplish that ? Will a simple free() do
the trick, or should I free all the arrays of arrays that the structure can
contain ?
Thanks in advance,
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