freehostent(3)freehostent(3)NAMEfreehostent - 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)