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Re: fixing Sys::Hostname

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From:
Tom Christiansen
Date:
February 7, 2000 13:45
Subject:
Re: fixing Sys::Hostname
Message ID:
26942.949959929@chthon
>If the result makes sense on 10% of systems only, then we are going to
>have a lot of problems (90% of them).

Bah.  90% of IBM mainframes can't do ioctl.  BFD.

gethostname() is just Sys::Hostname::hostname().

Any system worth the name has a gethostname() function, and
probably a uname() one.

--tom

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