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Re: fixing Sys::Hostname
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From:
Ilya Zakharevich
Date:
February 7, 2000 13:41
Subject:
Re: fixing Sys::Hostname
Message ID:
20000207164156.A7092@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu
On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 02:36:16PM -0700, Tom Christiansen wrote:
> >Enough said.
>
> Ilya, please take a break.
>
> I don't really care if your system can't provide a sane answer.
> That's *your*fricking*idiotic*problem*.
No it is not. If we put a function in Perl, we should be able to
document its result. `man gethostname` is not a possibility.
If the result makes sense on 10% of systems only, then we are going to
have a lot of problems (90% of them).
Ilya
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