Re: `inet/arpa/inet.h: Fix typo in documentation of inet_ntop`

Adhemerval Zanella Netto <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.glibc.alpha
Organization Linaro
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On 11/08/26 00:31, Jay Berry wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I have been clearing out my todo folder today and I noticed that back in 2022 I had seen a typo in `<arpa/inet.h>`. I have just made a git patch that amends it, which I've attached. I am used to committing on GitHub so do bear with me if it needs reformatting. It's only a one-liner (one-character really) "astarting" -> "starting".
> 
> My apologies if this is a pedantic first commit / email to this list. Maybe the typo is purposely left like that as one of those 'stable documentation' cases? I can see in the `git blame glibc-2.44.9000 -- inet/arpa/inet.h` that this has been present since 1997 (before I was born!). If not then enjoy.
> 
> Thanks for glibc!
> 
> Thanks,
> Jay
> 
> From 56e3fdaa333520e8f1b969e7f3ce40d95936ad37 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: jb2170 <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2026 03:53:03 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] inet/arpa/inet.h: Fix typo in documentation of inet_ntop

LGTM, thanks.

Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella  <[email protected]>

> 
> ---
>  inet/arpa/inet.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/inet/arpa/inet.h b/inet/arpa/inet.h
> index bcccdc59ea..2efa35cdec 100644
> --- a/inet/arpa/inet.h
> +++ b/inet/arpa/inet.h
> @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ extern int inet_pton (int __af, const char *__restrict __cp,
>  
>  /* Convert a Internet address in binary network format for interface
>     type AF in buffer starting at CP to presentation form and place
> -   result in buffer of length LEN astarting at BUF.  */
> +   result in buffer of length LEN starting at BUF.  */
>  extern const char *inet_ntop (int __af, const void *__restrict __cp,
>  			      char *__restrict __buf, socklen_t __len)
>       __THROW;
> -- 
> 2.55.0
>
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