Added descriptions of AI_ALL, AI_ADDRCONFIG, AI_V4MAPPED, and AI_NUMERICSERV.

Some wording and formatting fixes.
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Michael Kerrisk 2005-08-09 11:40:12 +00:00
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.\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work.
.\"
.\" References: RFC 2553
.\"
.\" 2005-08-09, mtk, added AI_ALL, AI_ADDRCONFIG, AI_V4MAPPED,
.\" and AI_NUMERICSERV.
.\"
.TH getaddrinfo 3 2000-12-18 "Linux Man Page" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
getaddrinfo, freeaddrinfo, gai_strerror \- network address and service translation
@ -116,9 +120,9 @@ function returns socket addresses in either IPv4 or IPv6
address family,
.RI "(" "ai_family"
will be set to either
.B PF_INET
.B AF_INET
or
.BR PF_INET6 ).
.BR AF_INET6 ).
.PP
The
.I hints
@ -127,9 +131,7 @@ the preferred socket type, or protocol.
A NULL
.I hints
specifies that any network address or protocol is acceptable.
If this parameter is not
.B NULL
it points to an
If this parameter is not NULL it points to an
.B addrinfo
structure
whose
@ -138,7 +140,7 @@ whose
and
.I ai_protocol
members specify the preferred socket type.
.B PF_UNSPEC
.B AF_UNSPEC
in
.I ai_family
specifies any protocol family (either IPv4 or IPv6, for example).
@ -165,11 +167,9 @@ parameter, but not both, may be NULL.
specifies either a numerical network address
(dotted-decimal format for IPv4, hexadecimal format for IPv6)
or a network hostname, whose network addresses are looked up and resolved.
If the
.I ai_flags
member in the
.I hints
parameter contains the
If
.I hints.ai_flags
contains the
.B AI_NUMERICHOST
flag then the
.I node
@ -191,9 +191,7 @@ The
field of the first of these
.B addrinfo
structures is set to point to the official name of the host, if
.I ai_flags
in
.I hints
.I hints.ai_flags
includes the
.B AI_CANONNAME
flag.
@ -219,11 +217,8 @@ is NULL,
the
network address in each socket structure is initialized according to the
.B AI_PASSIVE
flag, which is set in the
.I ai_flags
member of the
.I hints
parameter.
flag, which is set in
.IR hints.ai_flags .
The network address in each socket structure will be left unspecified
if
.B AI_PASSIVE
@ -237,11 +232,57 @@ flag is not set.
This is used by client applications, which intend to connect
to a server running on the same network host.
.PP
If
.I hints.ai_flags
includes the
.B AI_ADDRCONFIG
flag, then IPv4 addresses are returned in the list pointed to by
.I result
only if the local system has at least has at least one
IPv4 address configured, and IPv6 addresses are only returned
if the local system has at least one IPv6 address configured.
.PP
If
.I hint.ai_flags
specifies the
.B AI_V4MAPPED
flag, and
.I hints.ai_family
was specified as
.BR AF_INET6 ,
and no matching IPv6 addresses could be found,
then return IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses in the list pointed to by
.IR result .
If both
.B AI_V4MAPPED
and
.B AI_ALL
are specified in
.IR hints.ai_family ,
then return both IPv6 and IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses
in the list pointed to by
.IR result .
.B AI_ALL
is ignored if
.B AI_V4MAPPED
is not also specified.
.PP
.I service
sets the port number in the network address of each socket structure.
If
.I service
is NULL the port number will be left uninitialized.
If
.B AI_NUMERICSERV
is specified in
.IR hints.ai_flags
and
.I service
is not NULL, then
.I service
must point to a string containing a numeric port number.
This flag is used to inhibit the invocation of a name resolution service
in cases where it is known not to be required.
.PP
The
.BR freeaddrinfo (3)
@ -267,12 +308,17 @@ The
.I node
or
.I service
is not known.
This error is also returned if both
is not known; or both
.I node
and
.I service
are NULL.
are NULL; or
.B AI_NUMERICSERV
was specified in
.I hints.ai_flags
and
.I service
was not a numeric port-number string.
.TP
.B EAI_SERVICE
The requested service is not available for the requested socket type.
@ -310,6 +356,14 @@ POSIX 1003.1-2003.
The
.B getaddrinfo()
function is documented in RFC\ 2553.
.SH "NOTES"
.BR AI_ADDRCONFIG ,
.BR AI_ALL,
and
.BR AI_V4MAPPED
are available since glibc 2.3.3.
.BR AI_NUMERICSERV
is available since glibc 2.3.4.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR getipnodebyaddr (3),
.BR getipnodebyname (3)