test-netdb.c

[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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