Re: gethostname

[Sam Steingold]

Ben Pfaff wrote:
> Sam Steingold <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > > Sam Steingold <address@hidden> writes:
> > >
> > > > 1. is this module ever needed on a unix system?
> > > > i.e., are there any unix systems still in use that lack gethostname?
> > > >
> > > > 2. are there any unix systems still in use that lack uname?
> > > Among the platforms represented in Bruno Haible's collection of
> > > library symbols, only mingw and nsk-G06 lack either one (and they
> > > lack both of them).  Solaris has gethostname in libnsl, BeOS has
> > > it in libnet, and other platforms have it in libc.  BeoS has
> > > uname in libnet, and other platforms have it in libc.
> > but this makes the gethostname module completely useless, doesn't it?
>
> To me, it looks like it has limited value: on mingw and nsk-G06
> it provides a gethostname function that is otherwise missing.  I
> don't think it will ever fall back on uname on the systems that
> we know about, though, except possibly on Solaris (because the m4
> code doesn't check for gethostname in libnsl).

so the logical approach would be to either drop the C code altogether or 
implement it for nsk-G06 (whatever that might be).

note: woe32 does have gethostname, so mingw is fully covered.

> Probably gethostname.m4 should check for gethostname in libnsl
> and in libnet?

sounds good.