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Document removal of addr2ascii/ascii2addr and addition of AF_LINK

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support for getnameinfo.
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Bruce M Simpson 2007-02-28 21:33:40 +00:00
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@ -21,6 +21,14 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 7.x IS SLOW:
developers choose to disable these features on build machines
to maximize performance.
20070228:
The name resolution/mapping functions addr2ascii(3) and ascii2addr(3)
were removed from FreeBSD's libc. These originally came from INRIA
IPv6. Nothing in FreeBSD ever used them. They may be regarded as
deprecated in previous releases.
The AF_LINK support for getnameinfo(3) was merged from NetBSD to
replace it as a more portable (and re-entrant) API.
20070224:
To support interrupt filtering a modification to the newbus API
has occurred, ABI was broken and __FreeBSD_version was bumped