It appears that inet_aton() doesn't really exist except in libresolv;
the proper function to call is inet_addr(). Since we already had code
to do that (for MS-Windows), this simplifies things a lot!
diff --git a/Modules/socketmodule.c b/Modules/socketmodule.c
index e64090e..93a3b09 100644
--- a/Modules/socketmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/socketmodule.c
@@ -1807,26 +1807,10 @@
static PyObject*
BUILD_FUNC_DEF_2(PySocket_inet_aton, PyObject *, self, PyObject *, args)
{
-#ifndef MS_WINDOWS
- char *ip_addr;
- struct in_addr packed_addr;
- int err;
+#ifndef INADDR_NONE
+#define INADDR_NONE (-1)
+#endif
- if (!PyArg_Parse(args, "s", &ip_addr)) {
- return NULL;
- }
-
- err = inet_aton(ip_addr, &packed_addr);
-
- if (err == 0) { /* invalid address */
- PyErr_SetString(PySocket_Error,
- "illegal IP address string passed to inet_aton");
- return NULL;
- }
-
- return PyString_FromStringAndSize((char *) &packed_addr,
- sizeof(packed_addr));
-#else /* MS_WINDOWS */
/* Have to use inet_addr() instead */
char *ip_addr;
long packed_addr;
@@ -1845,7 +1829,6 @@
return PyString_FromStringAndSize((char *) &packed_addr,
sizeof(packed_addr));
-#endif /* MS_WINDOWS */
}
static char inet_ntoa_doc[] =