On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:55:08AM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: > "Daniel P. Berrange" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 07:33:17PM -0800, David Lutterkort wrote: > >> The attached patch makes virConnectGetHostname try a little harder to get a > >> FQDN on systems where gethostname only returns a short name without a > >> domain (which is pretty useless). The behavior is equivalent to 'hostname > >> --fqdn'. [...] > > Actually, gethostbyname should never be used in any modern code as it is > > not thread safe. Instead use getaddrinfo() and the AI_CANONNAME flag > > Good point. > Yet another reason not to use gethostbyname. > I think it's time to make the prohibition official. > Here's a patch to do that:
+1 to both patches, Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ -- Libvir-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
