[LFN24079170] [Feature Request] hostname providing -s parameter

[Nicholas Stallard]

Dear coreutils maintainers,
dear Mr. Meyering,

it has come to my attention, that using gnu coreutils
on a non GNU system such as FreeBSD can yield serious problems.

The main problem arises because the FreeBSD hostname accepts
an -s parameter, which will trimm off any domain information 
from the printed name.

So if I use hostname -s (without path) within /etc/rc.conf 
and happen to not execute /bin/hostname (provided by the system)
but /usr/local/bin/hostname (provided by coreutils), you can
surely guess, the result is certainly undesireable. 

I am aware, I could fix the path for hostname, but nevertheless
I think it might not be a bad idea for coreutils to support -s,
hence this bug report/feature request.

Is there any chance that the coreutils hostname could
accept a -s parameter (with the above mentioned functionality), 
and if omitted, simply behave like it already does?

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