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There aren't that many left though, they are a terrible idea. The NetBSD man page for inet_ntoa lists "The string returned by inet_ntoa() resides in a static m

There aren't that many left though, they are a terrible idea. The NetBSD man page for inet_ntoa lists "The string returned by inet_ntoa() resides in a static memory area" in the BUGS section, Linux is not so forward about it.

caf 12y ago
The Linux man page says: The string is returned in a statically allocated buffer, which subsequent calls will overwrite.