Function

Camelgetaddrinfo

since: 2.22

Declaration [src] 

addrinfo*
camel_getaddrinfo (
  const gchar* name,
  const gchar* service,
  const addrinfo* hints,
  GCancellable* cancellable,
  GError** error
)

Description [src]

Resolves a host name and returns an information about its address.

Available since: 2.22

Parameters

name

Type: const gchar*

An address name to resolve.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.
service

Type: const gchar*

A service name to use.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.
hints

Type: const addrinfo*

An #addrinfo hints, or NULL.

The argument can be NULL.
The data is owned by the caller of the function.
cancellable

Type: GCancellable

Optional GCancellable object, or NULL.

The argument can be NULL.
The data is owned by the caller of the function.
error

Type: GError **

The return location for a recoverable error.

The argument can be NULL.
If the return location is not NULL, then you must initialize it to a NULL GError*.
The argument will left initialized to NULL by the function if there are no errors.
In case of error, the argument will be set to a newly allocated GError; the caller will take ownership of the data, and be responsible for freeing it.

Return value

Type: addrinfo*

A newly allocated #addrinfo. Free it with camel_freeaddrinfo() when done with it.

The caller of the function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.
The return value can be NULL.