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- From: Bjarne Pohlers <bjarne@GOEDEL.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>
- Subject: Re: gethostname library function
- Date: Thu, 07 Oct 93 10:05:35 +0100
-
- |>I think it would be more unix-like to reverse the order of those 2
- |>things, and make the file /etc/hostname rather than /local/hostname.
- |>I suppose to maintain compatibility, it will have to do:
-
- |> o Look for a file /etc/hostname and use the contents
- |> o Check for a HOSTNAME environment variable
- |> o Look for a file /local/hostname and use the contents
-
- Well, what about a global configuration-file in which all absolute
- path-names and thing like this may be configured?
- I think about a file c:\etc\host.cnf which may contain some of the
- following lines:
- HOSTNAME=myhost
- PASSWDFILE=d:\etc\passwd
-
- and so on...
- This file would be examined by the library at run time. If it does not
- exists, we use the old defaults. As we might want to have this file
- not in c:\etc there should be a configuration program (like fixstk) to
- change this location in a compiled program...?
- If you agree, I would change the libs (if I have the time)...
-
- Bjarne
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- <bjarne@math.uni-muenster.de> | Mathematik (Informatik) der WWU Muenster
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