[PATCH] Hide sethostname() in unistd.h

Yaakov Selkowitz yselkowitz@cygwin.com
Wed Jun 17 20:57:00 GMT 2015


On Wed, 2015-06-17 at 22:25 +0200, Christian Franke wrote:
> Busybox does not use autoconf or similar. It requires manual platform 
> specific configuration which does not yet support a missing 
> sethostname(). After adding HAVE_SETHOSTNAME manually and some other 
> minor additions, busybox (which many commands enabled) compiles and 
> works reasonably.
> Would ITP make sense ?

TBH I'm not sure.  Presuming you're discussing the single-executable
build (so as not to clobber coreutils etc.), there is still the question
of (not) matching the heavily-patched coreutils wrt .exe handling etc.
What do you think the use case would be?

--
Yaakov





More information about the Cygwin-patches mailing list