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Re: fixing Sys::Hostname
From:
Ilya Zakharevich
Date:
February 7, 2000 13:49
Subject:
Re: fixing Sys::Hostname
Message ID:
20000207164902.A7142@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu
On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 02:45:29PM -0700, Tom Christiansen wrote:
> Any system worth the name has a gethostname() function, and
> probably a uname() one.
Existence of function does not help a tiny bit. What one needs is a
function which returns sensible results. At least, one should
be able to document what the result is good for.
"Value previously set by sethostname() or some other
architercture-depending value with architercture-depending semantic"
? Do we want such a function in the core?
Ilya