ares_free_hostent - Free host structure allocated by ares functions
#include <ares.h> void ares_free_hostent(struct hostent *host)
ARES_FREE_HOSTENT(3) Library Functions Manual ARES_FREE_HOSTENT(3) NAME ares_free_hostent - Free host structure allocated by ares functions SYNOPSIS #include <ares.h> void ares_free_hostent(struct hostent *host) DESCRIPTION The ares_free_hostent function frees a struct hostent allocated by one of the functions ares_parse_a_reply(3), ares_parse_aaaa_reply(3), or ares_parse_ptr_reply(3). ATTRIBUTES See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes: +---------------+------------------+ |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +---------------+------------------+ |Availability | library/libcares | +---------------+------------------+ |Stability | Volatile | +---------------+------------------+ NOTES It is not necessary (and is not correct) to free the host structure passed to the callback functions for ares_gethostbyname(3) or ares_gethostbyaddr(3). c-ares will automatically free such host struc- tures when the callback returns. Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source- code-downloads.html. This software was built from source available at https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community source was downloaded from https://c-ares.haxx.se/download/c- ares-1.17.2.tar.gz. Further information about this software can be found on the open source community website at https://c-ares.haxx.se/. SEE ALSO ares_parse_a_reply(3), ares_parse_aaaa_reply(3), ares_parse_ptr_reply(3), ares_parse_ns_reply(3) AUTHOR Greg Hudson, MIT Information Systems Copyright 1998 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 23 July 1998 ARES_FREE_HOSTENT(3)