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From:
Dan Sugalski
Date:
February 7, 2000 14:48
Subject:
Re: fixing Sys::Hostname
Message ID:
4.3.0.33.0.20000207175053.02576a20@24.8.96.48
At 02:42 PM 2/7/00 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
>Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> writes:
>
> > But what will it return? What *is* a host name?
>
>How about returning the result of gethostname in libc or throwing an
>exception if gethostname isn't implemented on that platform, just like
>symlink and the other core functions that aren't available on some OSes?
>And then if the VMS and Windows ports want to add their own native
>implementations (assuming they don't have gethostname), they can.
It's not a problem for VMS. Five minutes work to get the test in to be
sure--all I need to know is the config.sh name of the symbol. (I presume
d_gethostname, but...)
Dan
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