From 9b7a041741f8375faa2b013fae385fe9884cdfff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: brynet <>
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2018 17:49:32 +0000
Subject: Remove ethers(5) YP support bits from libc as it makes it difficult
 to effectively use pledge(2) in some programs.

approval from many, thanks!

idea by & ok deraadt@
---
 src/lib/libc/net/ethers.3 | 16 +++-------------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

(limited to 'src/lib/libc/net/ethers.3')

diff --git a/src/lib/libc/net/ethers.3 b/src/lib/libc/net/ethers.3
index 63304ffe48..021e1ced73 100644
--- a/src/lib/libc/net/ethers.3
+++ b/src/lib/libc/net/ethers.3
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: ethers.3,v 1.24 2015/11/10 23:48:18 jmc Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: ethers.3,v 1.25 2018/11/09 17:49:32 brynet Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Written by roland@frob.com.  Public domain.
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: November 10 2015 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: November 9 2018 $
 .Dt ETHER_ATON 3
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -79,17 +79,7 @@ zero if they find the requested host name or address, and \-1 if not.
 .Pp
 Each call reads
 .Pa /etc/ethers
-from the beginning; if a
-.Ql +
-appears alone on a line in the file, then
-.Fn ether_hostton
-will consult the
-.Pa ethers.byname
-YP map, and
-.Fn ether_ntohost
-will consult the
-.Pa ethers.byaddr
-YP map.
+from the beginning.
 .Pp
 The
 .Fn ether_line
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