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Re: gethostname() patch
- From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre dot Humblet at ieee dot org>
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 10:04:13 -0500
- Subject: Re: gethostname() patch
- References: <20030110130259.E1401@cygbert.vinschen.de>
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've just removed some old cruft from cygwin_gethostname which had
> the annoying result that always the return value of GetComputerName()
> has been used instead of the return value of gethostname(). Now
> Cygwin's gethostname and hostname(1) report the winsock value of the
> hostname which is lower case.
>
> My questions is: Shouldn't uname call this function as well? Uname
> still uses the upper case value returned from GetComputerName().
Are you saying that the only difference is case? If so, no problem.
I vaguely remember that it could be much more than that (WinME),
with gethostname reporting unexpected values from the registry
instead of the BIOS name. I can't test now.
Please don't include a uname change in the coming Cygwin release
before more testing.
Pierre