gethostname() patch
Corinna Vinschen
vinschen@redhat.com
Fri Jan 10 12:55:00 GMT 2003
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 07:18:01AM -0500, Sergey Okhapkin wrote:
> Two notes:
>
> 1. Why do you call set_winsock_errno() but not set_errno() if
> GetComputerName() failed?
set_winsock_errno() sets errno. Gethostname() is a network function, so...
> 2. You're comparing the return value of gethostname() with SOCKET_ERROR.
> What the return value will be if TCPIP is not installed?
Ooh, is there still any machine out there which hasn't TCP/IP installed?
It would have raised a fatal error message so far. I've changed that
so that in case the function can't get loaded, the return value is != 0.
> > My questions is: Shouldn't uname call this function as well? Uname
> > still uses the upper case value returned from GetComputerName().
What about my question?
Corinna
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