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Re: test-netdb.c

To: Roland McGrath <roland at frob dot com>
Subject: Re: test-netdb.c
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
Date: 27 Aug 2001 13:05:31 -0700
Cc: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>, GNU libc hacker <libc-hacker at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
References: <20010827195026.ADEF4994AE@perdition.linnaean.org>
Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)

Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com> writes:

> Really?  When I run test-netdb under gdb on x86 and set a bkpt on
> gethostname, I get the C code.

One x86.  But not on Alpha.

$ grep gethostname /usr/src/linux/include/asm-alpha/unistd.h 
#define __NR_gethostname         87

> The test-netdb code is clearly correct according to the description of
> gethostname in the manual.

The documented behavior is not what POSIX says and not what Linux (the
kernel) implements.

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