gethostname() patch

Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
Fri Jan 10 17:11:00 GMT 2003


Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 08:03:08AM -0500, Sergey Okhapkin wrote:
> 
>>>>>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?
>>>
>>
>>It should I think. I see no reason to have different return values from
>>uname() and hostname().
> 
> 
> I agree.  It will be nice to see a lowercase host name reported by
> "uname -a".
> 

Problematic for config.guess?

Earnie.



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