From e1a5ca24cac961bfbbfd802b52f827f3255d98cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 00:56:45 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] After the long explanaition of how the inet_* functions
 interpret Internet addresses, point out that inet_pton(3) only understands
 dotted quads with decimal values.

MFC after:	2 days
---
 lib/libc/net/inet.3 | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/libc/net/inet.3 b/lib/libc/net/inet.3
index 2461694f84e7..8816ae44d23c 100644
--- a/lib/libc/net/inet.3
+++ b/lib/libc/net/inet.3
@@ -203,6 +203,14 @@ hexadecimal; otherwise, a leading 0 implies octal;
 otherwise, the number is interpreted as decimal).
 .Pp
 The
+.Fn inet_pton
+function only understands Internet addresses written as dotted quads.
+Each
+.Dq part
+may only contain numeric characters and is always interpreted as a
+decimal value.
+.Pp
+The
 .Fn inet_aton
 and
 .Fn inet_ntoa