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SubjectRe: [PATCH] POSIX-hostname up to 255 characters
On Fri, 26 May 2006, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-05-26 03:14:06 -0600, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:
> > "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> writes:
> > > This patch is against 2.6.17-rc5, for review/comments, please.
> > > It won't apply to -mm since Andrew has merged the uts-namespace patches.
> > > I'll see about merging it with those patches next.
> > > ---
> > >
> > > From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
> > >
> > > Implement POSIX-defined length for 'hostname' so that hostnames
> > > can be longer than 64 characters (max. 255 characters plus
> > > terminating NULL character).
> > >
> > > Adds sys_gethostname_long() and sys_sethostname_long().
> > > Tested on i386 and x86_64.
> >
> > Is there any particular reason for this?
> > The existing sys_gethostname and sys_sethostname interfaces
> > should work for any string length.
> >
> > Although I do agree that we need at least one new syscall
> > for the architectures that don't currently use get_hostname.
>
> ...and this should have gone to linux-arch, too...

so how does someone know:
(a) that this should have gone to linux-arch
(b) that linux-arch exists
(c) what it's full email address it?

I.e., where is all of this explained?

Thanks.
--
~Randy

I'll get to Eric's questions later. I'm in a meeting today.
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