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From: rogers@dadla.LA.TEK.COM (Roger S. Southwick @ Tektronix)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Error in Ultrix include file
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Date: 20 Jun 88 21:25:21 GMT
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[Do not meddle in the affairs of Unix, for it is subtle and quick to core dump]

I found this bug in one of the include files for Ultrix 2.0 the
other day while playing with compiling of named 4.8 ....

The include file, /usr/include/arpa/inet.h, has got the type
of the function inet_addr() WRONG as being a struct in_addr.

According to the Ultrix source (a kindof old copy, but it should
not have changed), and comparing that to 4.3 BSD, the type
should be unsigned long.

	-Roger (rogers@dadla.LA.TEK.COM)
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And remember: "Space, is big.  Really big.  You just won't believe how
vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is.  I mean, you think it's a long
way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space."
	-Intro to HHGttG.