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| Title: | DIGITAL UNIX (FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1) |
| Notice: | Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference |
| Moderator: | SMURF::DENHAM |
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| Created: | Thu Mar 16 1995 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 10068 |
| Total number of notes: | 35879 |
9679.0. "gethostname(2) and fully qualified domain names" by DECC::SEIGEL () Wed Apr 30 1997 12:25
On Digital Unix 4.0A and later, if the gethostname(2) system call succeeds, is
it guaranteed to always return a fully qualified domain name ?
We are porting a solaris application, which contains special code because
gethostname(2) on solaris does not always return a fully qualified domain
name. We are wondering if we need this special code in our Digital Unix
version of the application.
Thanks, Harold
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| 9679.1 | | SMURF::DANIELE | | Wed Apr 30 1997 13:43 | 9 |
| I don't think you can be guaranteed of getting back
a fqdn. Normal configuration procedures will usually
result in one being stored there. But I don't believe
there's anything to prevent an authorized user from
ussing a command like
#hostname fred
Mike
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