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These calls give the callbacks a chance to clean up any state which
might have been stored in their arguments.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR ares_init (3)
.BR ares_init (3),
.BR ares_cancel (3)
.SH AUTHOR
Greg Hudson, MIT Information Systems
.br
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......@@ -28,21 +28,16 @@ The
.I ares_free_hostent
function frees a
.B struct hostent
allocated by one of the functions
.I ares_parse_a_reply
or
.IR ares_parse_ptr_reply .
allocated by one of the functions \fIares_parse_a_reply(3)\fP or
\fIares_parse_ptr_reply(3)\fP.
.SH NOTES
It is not necessary (and is not correct) to free the host structure passed to
the callback functions for \fIares_gethostbyname(3)\fP or
\fIares_gethostbyaddr(3)\fP. The ares library will automatically free such
host structures when the callback returns.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR ares_parse_a_reply (3),
.BR ares_parse_ptr_reply (3)
.SH NOTES
It is not necessary (and is not correct) to free the host structure
passed to the callback functions for
.I ares_gethostbyname
or
.IR ares_gethostbyaddr .
The ares library will automatically free such host structures when the
callback returns.
.SH AUTHOR
Greg Hudson, MIT Information Systems
.br
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......@@ -50,8 +50,7 @@ stored in the variable pointed to by
and the length of which will be stored in the variable pointed to by
.IR buflen .
It is the caller's responsibility to free this buffer using
.B ares_free_string
when it is no longer needed.
\fIares_free_string(3)\fP when it is no longer needed.
.SH RETURN VALUES
.B ares_mkquery
can return any of the following values:
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......@@ -35,13 +35,10 @@ The file descriptor sets pointed to by
and
.I write_fds
should have file descriptors set in them according to whether the file
descriptors specified by
.BR ares_fds (3)
are ready for reading and writing. (The easiest way to determine this
information is to invoke
descriptors specified by \fIares_fds(3)\fP are ready for reading and writing.
(The easiest way to determine this information is to invoke
.B select
with a timeout no greater than the timeout given by
.BR ares_timeout (3)).
with a timeout no greater than the timeout given by \fIares_timeout(3)\fP ).
.PP
The
.B ares_process
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......@@ -27,10 +27,8 @@ ares_fds \- Get file descriptors to select on for name service
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.B ares_timeout
function determines the maximum time for which the caller should wait
before invoking
.BR ares_process (3)
to process timeouts. The parameter
function determines the maximum time for which the caller should wait before
invoking \fIares_process(3)\fP to process timeouts. The parameter
.I maxtv
specifies a existing maximum timeout, or
.B NULL
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