sethostent()

Since:

BlackBerry 10.0.0

Arguments:

stayopen

Nonzero if you want all queries to the name server to use TCP and you want the connection to be retained after each call to gethostbyname() or gethostbyaddr() .

If the stayopen flag is zero, queries use UDP datagrams.

Library:

libsocket

Use the -l socket option to qcc to link against this library.

Description:

The sethostent() routine opens the host database file.

You can use the sethostent() function to request the use of a connected TCP socket for queries.

Classification:

POSIX 1003.1

Caveats:

This function uses static data; if the data is needed for future use, it should be copied before any subsequent calls overwrite it.