[2438] in Athena Bugs
Re: 6.2A VAX: gethostent missing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
Tue Jun 20 18:25:33 1989
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 89 18:25:04 -0400
From: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: "Robert S. French" <rfrench@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: dschmidt@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Robert S. French's message of Tue, 20 Jun 89 12:53:50 -0400,
The C library version of {set,end}hostent are the name-resolver
versions; sethostent and endhostent affect the options used by the
resolver code:
sethostent(stayopen)
{
if (stayopen)
_res.options |= RES_STAYOPEN | RES_USEVC;
}
endhostent()
{
_res.options &= ~(RES_STAYOPEN | RES_USEVC);
_res_close();
}
There is no equivalent for gethostent.
The hostlib library is presumably the code for parsing /etc/hosts.
