It's gethostname, no "by", to get the name of the current host.
IPv6 support is provided for xscope by the xtrans code, and I
believe fully works already (I haven't actually tested in a while).
-alan-
On 09/24/11 12:43 PM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
Can we use this opportunity to use getaddrinfo(3) rather than gethostbyname(3)
as it is the preferred API and will make xscope IPv6 compatible.
On Sep 24, 2011, at 08:48, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
Signed-off-by: Alan Coopersmith<[email protected]>
---
common.c | 15 +++++++--------
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/common.c b/common.c
index 42220cd..3779b13 100644
--- a/common.c
+++ b/common.c
@@ -200,9 +200,15 @@ SetUpConnectionSocket(
struct linger linger;
#endif /* SO_DONTLINGER */
#endif
+ char MyHostName[256];
enterprocedure("SetUpConnectionSocket");
+ (void) gethostname(MyHostName, sizeof(MyHostName));
+ ScopeHost = strdup(MyHostName);
+ if (ScopeHost == NULL)
+ panic("Can't allocate memory for hostname");
+
#ifdef USE_XTRANS
ScopePort = iport - ServerBasePort;
sprintf (port, "%d", ScopePort);
@@ -258,14 +264,7 @@ SetUpConnectionSocket(
*/
{
/* define the host part of the address */
- char MyHostName[256];
- struct hostent *hp;
-
- (void) gethostname(MyHostName, sizeof(MyHostName));
- ScopeHost = strdup(MyHostName);
- if (ScopeHost == NULL)
- panic("Can't allocate memory for hostname");
- hp = gethostbyname(MyHostName);
+ struct hostent *hp = gethostbyname(MyHostName);
if (hp == NULL)
panic("No address for our host");
bcopy((char *)hp->h_addr, (char*)&sin.sin_addr, hp->h_length);
--
1.7.3.2
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