1INET_NTOP(3) Linux Programmer's Manual INET_NTOP(3)
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6 inet_ntop - convert IPv4 and IPv6 addresses from binary to text form
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9 #include <arpa/inet.h>
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11 const char *inet_ntop(int af, const void *src,
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15 This function converts the network address structure src in the af
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18 caller specifies the number of bytes available in this buffer in the
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21 inet_ntop() extends the inet_ntoa(3) function to support multiple
22 address families, inet_ntoa(3) is now considered to be deprecated in
23 favor of inet_ntop(). The following address families are currently
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27 src points to a struct in_addr (in network byte order) which is
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29 mat, "ddd.ddd.ddd.ddd". The buffer dst must be at least
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33 src points to a struct in6_addr (in network byte order) which is
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39 On success, inet_ntop() returns a non-null pointer to dst. NULL is
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46 ENOSPC The converted address string would exceed the size given by
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50 POSIX.1-2001. Note that RFC 2553 defines a prototype where the last
51 argument size is of type size_t. Many systems follow RFC 2553. Glibc
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55 AF_INET6 converts IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses into an IPv6 format.
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61 getnameinfo(3), inet(3), inet_pton(3)
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64 This page is part of release 3.22 of the Linux man-pages project. A
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