From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: about __ARCH_WANT_SYS_GETHOSTNAME
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 11:53:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1slox86vt.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0603310911260.6105@shark.he.net> (Randy Dunlap's message of "Fri, 31 Mar 2006 09:21:43 -0800 (PST)")
"Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> writes:
> Hi,
>
> What was/is the purpose of __ARCH_WANT_SYS_GETHOSTNAME?
> and why do a few arches not #define it?
>
> If it is not #defined, should those arches supply their own
> sys_gethostname() function?
>
> 21 arches #define __ARCH_WANT_SYS_GETHOSTNAME.
> A few don't: frv, ia64, & xtensa.
> But all arches (except for um) #define __NR_gethostname.
>
> Is __ARCH_WANT_SYS_GETHOSTNAME just crufty and doesn't matter
> any more?
I know you can implement it by simply calling uname.
Beyond that I am puzzled.
Eric
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