Re: significance of init_addrtoname()

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 06:27:26PM -0600, alex medvedev wrote:
> no, no problem is caused by calling init_addrtoname().
> i am trying to change a tcpdump-like tool that uses proprietary format for
> dumping packets to a file to use libpcap.

If it's just dumping to a file, and printing any human-readable
dissection of packets, you shouldn't need "init_addrtoname()"; the stuff
it initializes is used for generating human-readable output.
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