socket.inet_aton 64-bit buglet; endianess?

[Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou]

At least on SGI Irix, it returns a byte representation of a long (8
bytes), which is plain wrong.

What I wanted to know before supplying a patch, is that: is the
endianess of the result specified?  Should I just return a string
representation of a 4-byte integer, or should I make sure it is in
network order (big-endian)?

Thanks in advance.
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