[adasockets] AdaSockets 1.8.5 is released

Thomas De Contes d.l.tDeContes at free.fr
Mon Jun 11 16:49:57 CEST 2007


Le jeudi, 7 juin 2007, à 13:34 Europe/Paris, Samuel Tardieu a écrit :

> On  7/06, Thomas De Contes wrote:
>
> | >  http://www.rfc1149.net/devel/adasockets
> |
> | Well, since this page is out,
>
> I shall fix it later today if I find some time.

thank you :-)

it needn't any patch to be installed,
and it seems to work all right, on mac os x :-))


> | What's the interest in inet_aton in comparison with inet_addr ?
>
> RTFM
>
>        The  inet_addr()  function  converts  the Internet host address 
> cp from
>        numbers-and-dots notation into binary data in network byte  
> order.   If
>        the input is invalid, INADDR_NONE (usually -1) is returned.  
> This is an
>        obsolete interface to inet_aton(), described immediately above; 
>  it  is
>        obsolete   because   -1  is  a  valid  address  
> (255.255.255.255),  and
>        inet_aton() provides a cleaner way to indicate error return.

i don't get that when i type "man inet_addr", but all works right, 
that's the main thing :-)


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