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I mentioned the gethostbyname call during an interview with this question. The interviewer reminded me that gethostbyname was deprecated and we had a short dis

by kokey 12y ago

I mentioned the gethostbyname call during an interview with this question. The interviewer reminded me that gethostbyname was deprecated and we had a short discussion about the recently discovered vulnerability in the glibc implementation of it.

fafner 12y ago
It has been obsoleted in favour of getnameinfo. (The vulnerability in glibc has been fixed.)