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>lwres_inetntop</A
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><DIV
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><A
NAME="AEN8"
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><H2
>Name</H2
>lwres_net_ntop -- lightweight resolver IP address presentation</DIV
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><H2
>Synopsis</H2
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><CODE
><CODE
CLASS="FUNCDEF"
>const char *
lwres_net_ntop</CODE
>(int af, const void *src, char *dst, size_t size);</CODE
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><H2
>DESCRIPTION</H2
><P
><TT
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>lwres_net_ntop()</TT
>
converts an IP address of protocol family
<TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>af</I
></TT
>
— IPv4 or IPv6 —
at location
<TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>src</I
></TT
>
from network format to its conventional representation as a string.
For IPv4 addresses, that string would be a dotted-decimal.
An IPv6 address would be represented in colon notation as described in
RFC1884.</P
><P
>The generated string is copied to
<TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>dst</I
></TT
>
provided
<TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>size</I
></TT
>
indicates it is long enough to store the ASCII representation
of the address.</P
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NAME="AEN30"
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><H2
>RETURN VALUES</H2
><P
>If successful, the function returns
<TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>dst</I
></TT
>:
a pointer to a string containing
the presentation format of the address.
<TT
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>lwres_net_ntop()</TT
>
returns
<SPAN
CLASS="TYPE"
>NULL</SPAN
>
and sets the global variable
<TT
CLASS="CONSTANT"
>errno</TT
>
to
<SPAN
CLASS="ERRORCODE"
>EAFNOSUPPORT</SPAN
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if the protocol family given in
<TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>af</I
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is not supported.</P
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>SEE ALSO</H2
><P
><SPAN
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>RFC1884</SPAN
></SPAN
>,
<SPAN
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><SPAN
CLASS="REFENTRYTITLE"
>inet_ntop</SPAN
>(3)</SPAN
>,
<SPAN
CLASS="CITEREFENTRY"
><SPAN
CLASS="REFENTRYTITLE"
>errno</SPAN
>(3)</SPAN
>.</P
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