>> you can't blame ISC (nor solaris/glibc).
>
>Note that gethostent_r() has been already existed before the IRS
>library.
>If the IRS people need different semantics from Solaris/glibc one,
>fine, then they should choose different name.
>Intentionally defining different semantics for those functions
>is definitely NIH. That's what we should avoid.

	so tell me, who invented this function?

	(and i think you should shut up and code, i have never seen you code)

itojun