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maint: update almost all copyright ranges to include 2011 Run the new "make update-copyright" rule.
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1 @node inet_ntoa
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2 @section inet_ntoa
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3 @findex inet_ntoa
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5 @c Copyright (C) 2005, 2009-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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7 @c Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
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8 @c under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or
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9 @c any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
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10 @c Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover
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11 @c Texts. A copy of the license is included in the ``GNU Free
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12 @c Documentation License'' file as part of this distribution.
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14 The @code{inet_ntoa} function need not be reentrant, and consequently
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15 is not required to be thread safe. Implementations of
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16 @code{inet_ntoa} typically write the time stamp into static buffer.
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17 If two threads call @code{inet_ntoa} at roughly the same time, you
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18 might end up with the wrong date in one of the threads, or some
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19 undefined string. Further, @code{inet_ntoa} is specific for
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20 @acronym{IPv4} addresses.
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22 A protocol independent function is @code{inet_ntop}.