This function converts the network address structure
src
in the
af
address family into a character string.
The resulting string is copied to the buffer pointed to by
dst,
which must be a non-NULL pointer.
The caller specifies the number of bytes available in this buffer in
the argument
size.
inet_ntop()
extends the
inet_ntoa(3)
function to support multiple address families,
inet_ntoa(3)
is now considered to be deprecated in favor of
inet_ntop().
The following address families are currently supported:
AF_INET
src
points to a
struct in_addr
(in network byte order)
which is converted to an IPv4 network address in
the dotted-decimal format, "ddd.ddd.ddd.ddd".
The buffer
dst
must be at least
INET_ADDRSTRLEN
bytes long.
AF_INET6
src
points to a
struct in6_addr
(in network byte order)
which is converted to a representation of this address in the
most appropriate IPv6 network address format for this address.
The buffer
dst
must be at least
INET6_ADDRSTRLEN
bytes long.
RETURN VALUE
On success,
inet_ntop()
returns a non-null pointer to
dst.
NULL is returned if there was an error, with
errno
set to indicate the error.
ERRORS
EAFNOSUPPORT
af
was not a valid address family.
ENOSPC
The converted address string would exceed the size given by
size.
CONFORMING TO
POSIX.1-2001.
Note that RFC 2553 defines a prototype where the last argument
size
is of type
size_t.
Many systems follow RFC 2553.
Glibc 2.0 and 2.1 have
size_t,
but 2.2 and later have
socklen_t.
BUGS
AF_INET6
converts IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses into an IPv6 format.
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