From: gga <GGarramuno@...>
Date: 2006-12-21T12:30:06+09:00
Subject: Re: why is gethostbyname in TCPSocket?


msoulier ha escrito:

> Looking for dns support, I found the gethostbyname method as a class
> method of TCPSocket in the socket library.
>
> Seems like an odd place, considering that gethostbyname is hardly
> specific to TCP protocol alone.
>
> Any idea why it was put there?
>

It wasn't.  It's part of Socket, which seems rather logical.  TCPSocket
just inherits from Socket.