NAME

freehostent − Returns hostent structures and dynamic storage to the system

LIBRARY

Standard C Library (libc.so, libc.a)

SYNOPSIS

#include <netdb.h>

void freehostent (
    struct hostent ∗ptr);

PARAMETERS

ptrSpecifies a pointer to the hostent structure to be freed.  database. 

DESCRIPTION

The freehostent() function frees hostent structures and dynamic memory to the system.  You should use this return to free hostent structures that were returned by the getipnodebyname() and getipnodebyaddr() functions only.

RELATED INFORMATION

Functions: getipnodebyaddr(3), getipnodebyname(3).