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Re: back-ldap

At 05:31 PM 5/25/99 -0700, Howard Chu wrote:
>In slapd/main.c, "inet_aton" is undefined on my Solaris 2.5 box.

Odd.

>I used the
>inet_addr line instead (lines 130-135) to get past this hiccup. (Local patch
>only, I didn't commit this change.) I don't believe inet_aton is commonly
>present on older Unix libraries, but I haven't checked in depth.

inet_aton() is generally favored over inet_addr() as inet_addr
cannot return INADDR_NONE without indicating an error.

We probably should create some wrappers than then use
ascii2address, inet_aton, or inet_addr depending on
availability.

Kurt