[PATCH] Remove gethostname from sysdeps/unix/syscalls.list

Andreas Schwab schwab@linux-m68k.org
Sat Sep 26 09:24:15 GMT 2026


On Sep 25 2026, Matt Turner wrote:

> Commit 9d7d648088 ("alpha: Use the generic gethostname") removed the
> alpha gethostname.c to use sysdeps/posix/gethostname.c, but
> sysdeps/unix precedes sysdeps/posix and its syscalls.list has a
> gethostname entry. alpha is the only Linux target defining
> __NR_gethostname, so it now gets a raw syscall wrapper. The kernel
> truncates the name and returns 0, so a too-small buffer is no longer
> an error:

That's a conforming implemention of gethostname.

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