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doc: do not use @acronym * doc/inet_ntoa.texi (inet_ntoa): * doc/parse-datetime.texi (Seconds since the Epoch) (Specifying time zone rules): * doc/posix-functions/inet_ntoa.texi (inet_ntoa): Don't use @acronym. Problem reported by John Darlington in <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2012-08/msg00124.html>.
author Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
date Fri, 24 Aug 2012 02:19:57 -0700
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@node inet_ntoa
@section inet_ntoa
@findex inet_ntoa

@c Copyright (C) 2005, 2009-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

@c Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
@c under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or
@c any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
@c Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover
@c Texts.  A copy of the license is included in the ``GNU Free
@c Documentation License'' file as part of this distribution.

The @code{inet_ntoa} function need not be reentrant, and consequently
is not required to be thread safe.  Implementations of
@code{inet_ntoa} typically write the time stamp into static buffer.
If two threads call @code{inet_ntoa} at roughly the same time, you
might end up with the wrong date in one of the threads, or some
undefined string.  Further, @code{inet_ntoa} is specific for
IPv4 addresses.

A protocol independent function is @code{inet_ntop}.