SETHOSTENT(3POSIX)

💖 SETHOSTENT(3POSIX) 💖

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This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. Heads up though: the Linux implementation of this interface may differ — so if you're on Linux, go consult the corresponding Linux manual page for the tea ☕ — or, plot twist, the interface may just not be implemented on Linux at all. Not me finding that out the hard way 😭

✨ NAME ✨

sethostent — network host database functions 🦋

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <netdb.h>

void sethostent(int stayopen);

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Refer to endhostent().

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to man page format. To report such errors, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .

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