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From:
Ilya Zakharevich
Date:
February 7, 2000 13:09
Subject:
Re: fixing Sys::Hostname
Message ID:
20000207160857.A6833@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu
On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 02:07:03PM -0700, Tom Christiansen wrote:
> >Suppose I'm behind a temporary-IP-assigned SLIP dialup.  I have
> >$ENV{HOSTNAME} set to some internal-use-only value which means nothing
> >to the outside world.  What would gethostname() do?
> 
> % man gethostname

What I see on the Solaris manpage does not answer my question.  Are
you going to provide sethostname() too?  Next try.

Ilya

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