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Re: A new hostent function?
- To: hjl@innovix.com (H.J. Lu)
- Subject: Re: A new hostent function?
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
- Date: 23 Sep 1998 16:43:34 -0700
- Cc: libc-hacker@cygnus.com (GNU C Library)
- References: <m0zLc4d-0003M3C@innovix.com>
- Reply-To: drepper@cygnus.com (Ulrich Drepper)
hjl@innovix.com (H.J. Lu) writes:
> When I was working in knfsd, I found this function is very useful.
> What do you think?
Well, it's certainly useful sometimes, but once we add this function
we would also have similar functions for all the other struct (passwd,
servent etc). And I think this is a bad idea.
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