Re: gethostname

[Sam Steingold]

> * Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> [2008-08-11 23:23:24 +0200]:
>
> Sam Steingold <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> gnulib/lib/gethostname.c says:
>>
>> #ifdef HAVE_UNAME
>> # include <sys/utsname.h>
>> #endif
>>
>> 1. why aren't you testing for HAVE_SYS_UTSNAME_H instead?
>>
>> 2. are there really systems without uname & <sys/utsname.h>, given
>> that these are in posix?
>> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/uname.html
>
> I think the right solution here should be to apply the patch below.
> If there are problems on any system caused by that, the solution to
> that problem should be to create a module for sys/utsname.h and uname.
> The gethostname module shouldn't depend on such modules, they need to
> be added manually by maintainers who want compatibility with non-POSIX
> systems.  Thoughts?

note that gethostname is just as posix as uname,
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/gethostname.html
so the gethostname module is only needed for non-posix systems.


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