freehostent(3) freehostent(3) NAME freehostent - Return hostent structures and dynamic storage to the sys‐ tem SYNOPSIS #include <netdb.h> void freehostent( struct hostent *ptr ); LIBRARY Standard C Library (libc) PARAMETERS Specifies a pointer to the hostent structure to be freed. 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() func‐ tions only. SEE ALSO Functions: getipnodebyaddr(3), getipnodebyname(3). Network Programmer's Guide freehostent(3)[top]
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