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update nearly all FSF copyright year lists to include 2010
Use the same procedure as for 2009, outlined in
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs/20081
author | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> |
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date | Fri, 01 Jan 2010 10:31:12 +0100 |
parents | b5e42ef33b49 |
children | 97fc9a21a8fb |
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@node inet_ntoa @section inet_ntoa @findex inet_ntoa @c Copyright (C) 2005, 2009, 2010 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 @acronym{IPv4} addresses. A protocol independent function is @code{inet_ntop}.