From 3b63ed82303ce91b5ed2b8906ca2e4bd9b12474b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 08:34:51 +0000 Subject: the ares_parse_aaaa_reply man page --- ares/ares_parse_aaaa_reply.3 | 64 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 64 insertions(+) create mode 100644 ares/ares_parse_aaaa_reply.3 (limited to 'ares/ares_parse_aaaa_reply.3') diff --git a/ares/ares_parse_aaaa_reply.3 b/ares/ares_parse_aaaa_reply.3 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..15ecd5e99 --- /dev/null +++ b/ares/ares_parse_aaaa_reply.3 @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +.\" $Id$ +.\" +.\" Copyright 2005 by Dominick Meglio. +.\" +.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this +.\" software and its documentation for any purpose and without +.\" fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright +.\" notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright +.\" notice and this permission notice appear in supporting +.\" documentation, and that the name of M.I.T. not be used in +.\" advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the +.\" software without specific, written prior permission. +.\" M.I.T. makes no representations about the suitability of +.\" this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" +.\" without express or implied warranty. +.\" +.TH ARES_PARSE_AAAA_REPLY 3 "10 March 2005" +.SH NAME +ares_parse_aaaa_reply \- Parse a reply to a DNS query of type AAAA into a hostent +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include +.PP +.B int ares_parse_aaaa_reply(const unsigned char *\fIabuf\fP, int \fIalen\fP, +.B struct hostent **\fIhost\fP); +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +.B ares_parse_aaaa_reply +function parses the response to a query of type AAAA into a +.BR "struct hostent" . +The parameters +.I abuf +and +.I alen +give the contents of the response. The result is stored in allocated +memory and a pointer to it stored into the variable pointed to by +.IR host . +It is the caller's responsibility to free the resulting host structure +using +.BR ares_free_hostent (3) +when it is no longer needed. +.SH RETURN VALUES +.B ares_parse_aaaa_reply +can return any of the following values: +.TP 15 +.B ARES_SUCCESS +The response was successfully parsed. +.TP 15 +.B ARES_EBADRESP +The response was malformatted. +.TP 15 +.B ARES_ENODATA +The response did not contain an answer to the query. +.TP 15 +.B ARES_ENOMEM +Memory was exhausted. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR ares_gethostbyname (3), +.BR ares_free_hostent (3) +.SH AUTHOR +Dominick Meglio +.br +Copyright 2005 by Dominick Meglio. -- cgit v1.2.3