Subject: Re: bin/1067: ifconfig uses inet_addr rather than inet_aton
To: None <mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
From: Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@ai.mit.edu>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 05/19/1995 22:11:57 
   Argh!  Why take a perfectly good struct in_addr, take one of its
   members, and cast a pointer to that member back to a pointer to the
   structure type?  Why in the world not just

	   if (inet_aton(s, &sin->sin_addr) == 0)

That's what I did when I applied the change.  Chill.