On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 09:40:45PM +0200, Toni Mueller wrote:
> Hi Patrick,
> 
> On Sun, 11.04.2010 at 11:58:54 -0700, patrick keshishian 
> <sids...@boxsoft.com> wrote:
> > inet_ntoa will return pointer to a static buffer. Each call
> > TO IT Will override thsi buffer with the new IP info.
> 
> I already suspected something like this, but this behaviour is not
> documented in the man page.

Look at the very bottom of the man page:

        The string returned by inet_ntoa() resides in a static
        memory area

--patrick

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