gethostname() patch

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Fri Jan 10 16:27:00 GMT 2003


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".

cgf



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