Re: novice coding in /linux/net/ipv4/util.c

[Nivedita Singhvi]

in_ntoa() should be obsolete. The current policy seems to
be to have everybody use NIPQUAD directly..

They seem to have axed the reentrant in_ntoa2()
between 2.3.99 and 2.4.0:

--- linux-2.3.99/net/ipv4/utils.c       Wed Jun  9 14:45:37 1999
+++ linux-2.4.0/net/ipv4/utils.c        Tue Oct 10 10:33:52 2000
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *             Various kernel-resident INET utility functions; mainly
  *             for format conversion and debugging output.
  *
- * Version:    $Id: utils.c,v 1.7 1999/06/09 10:11:05 davem Exp $
+ * Version:    $Id: utils.c,v 1.8 2000/10/03 07:29:01 anton Exp $
  *
  * Author:     Fred N. van Kempen, <[e-mail]>
  *
@@ -57,12 +57,6 @@
        return(buff);
 }
 
-char *in_ntoa2(__u32 in, char *buff)
-{
-       sprintf(buff, "%d.%d.%d.%d", NIPQUAD(in));
-       return buff;
-}
-
 /*
  *     Convert an ASCII string to binary IP. 
  */