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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2006-12-04 05:46:35 +0000 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2006-12-04 05:46:35 +0000 |
| commit | 7cc028fb0c410ec1665b9cf16143c166643a3c52 (patch) | |
| tree | 101497bb4d04d1099349a76943a959481c951b64 /man3 | |
| parent | 609af441bea99ed57a18115391723e00e082b2cc (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-7cc028fb0c410ec1665b9cf16143c166643a3c52.tar.gz | |
Clarified description of inet_network().
Diffstat (limited to 'man3')
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/inet.3 | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man3/inet.3 b/man3/inet.3 index 4855bc92f3..b1ac003bbd 100644 --- a/man3/inet.3 +++ b/man3/inet.3 @@ -70,9 +70,11 @@ immediately above; it is obsolete because \-1 is a valid address (255.255.255.255), and \fBinet_aton\fP() provides a cleaner way to indicate error return. .PP -The \fBinet_network\fP() function extracts the network number in -host byte order from the address \fIcp\fP in numbers-and-dots -notation. If the input is invalid, \-1 is returned. + +The \fBinet_network\fP() function extracts +a number in host byte order suitable for use as an Internet address +from \fIcp\fP, which is a string in numbers-and-dots notation. +If the input is invalid, \-1 is returned. .PP The \fBinet_ntoa\fP() function converts the Internet host address \fIin\fP given in network byte order to a string in standard |