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Re: gethostname() patch


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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