osf1 man page for freehostent

freehostent(3)						     Library Functions Manual						    freehostent(3)

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
       Specifies 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 struc-
       tures that were returned by the getipnodebyname() and getipnodebyaddr() functions only.

RELATED INFORMATION
       Functions: getipnodebyaddr(3), getipnodebyname(3).  delim off

																    freehostent(3)