Guy Harris

So it's beginning to look as if we should strongly recommend against using network names for the "net" keyword, and maybe even deprecate support for that and eventually remove it.

For what it's worth, I've submitted https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32719 for GNU libc.

Speaking of "get rid of getnet*" - https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg04250.html, from May 2021.

And DEC/Compaq/whoever marked it as obsolete in the Tru64 UNIX documentation a while ago - https://www3.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/physnet/Tru64-Unix/HTML/MAN/MAN3/0979____.HTM.

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