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| author | Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com> | 2022-09-05 23:03:38 +0200 |
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| committer | Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com> | 2022-09-05 23:03:47 +0200 |
| commit | 70ac1c4785fc1e158ab2349a962dba2526bf4fbc (patch) | |
| tree | bff270e2496dd284bccfc1271b43946f5d225224 /man/man3/byteorder.3 | |
| parent | 5423a6f86b2b920a5f3e8cf8d759b513050f2d33 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-70ac1c4785fc1e158ab2349a962dba2526bf4fbc.tar.gz | |
src.mk, All pages: Move man* to man/
The root of the repository is becoming a bit overpopulated and
unorganized, due to the recent addition of more mandirs, and more
informative and configuration files too. Let's create a specific
mandir <man/> that contains the mandirs <man[1-8]*>.
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/man/man3/byteorder.3 b/man/man3/byteorder.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ecc7410770 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man3/byteorder.3 @@ -0,0 +1,83 @@ +.\" Copyright 1993 David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk) +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft +.\" +.\" References consulted: +.\" Linux libc source code +.\" Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991) +.\" 386BSD man pages +.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 21:29:05 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) +.\" Modified Thu Jul 26 14:06:20 2001 by Andries Brouwer (aeb@cwi.nl) +.\" +.TH BYTEORDER 3 2021-03-22 "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" +.SH NAME +htonl, htons, ntohl, ntohs \- convert values between host and network +byte order +.SH LIBRARY +Standard C library +.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include <arpa/inet.h> +.PP +.BI "uint32_t htonl(uint32_t " hostlong ); +.BI "uint16_t htons(uint16_t " hostshort ); +.PP +.BI "uint32_t ntohl(uint32_t " netlong ); +.BI "uint16_t ntohs(uint16_t " netshort ); +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +.BR htonl () +function converts the unsigned integer +.I hostlong +from host byte order to network byte order. +.PP +The +.BR htons () +function converts the unsigned short integer +.I hostshort +from host byte order to network byte order. +.PP +The +.BR ntohl () +function converts the unsigned integer +.I netlong +from network byte order to host byte order. +.PP +The +.BR ntohs () +function converts the unsigned short integer +.I netshort +from network byte order to host byte order. +.PP +On the i386 the host byte order is Least Significant Byte first, +whereas the network byte order, as used on the Internet, is Most +Significant Byte first. +.SH ATTRIBUTES +For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see +.BR attributes (7). +.ad l +.nh +.TS +allbox; +lbx lb lb +l l l. +Interface Attribute Value +T{ +.BR htonl (), +.BR htons (), +.BR ntohl (), +.BR ntohs () +T} Thread safety MT-Safe +.TE +.hy +.ad +.sp 1 +.SH STANDARDS +POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR bswap (3), +.BR endian (3), +.BR gethostbyname (3), +.BR getservent (3) |