Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751190AbWEZR2R (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 May 2006 13:28:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751179AbWEZR2R (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 May 2006 13:28:17 -0400 Received: from xenotime.net ([66.160.160.81]:45283 "HELO xenotime.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751192AbWEZR2Q (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 May 2006 13:28:16 -0400 Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 10:28:13 -0700 (PDT) From: "Randy.Dunlap" X-X-Sender: rddunlap@shark.he.net To: Jan-Benedict Glaw cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , "Randy.Dunlap" , lkml , drepper@redhat.com, akpm , serue@us.ibm.com, sam@vilain.net, clg@fr.ibm.com, dev@sw.ru Subject: Re: [PATCH] POSIX-hostname up to 255 characters In-Reply-To: <20060526144216.GZ13513@lug-owl.de> Message-ID: References: <20060525204534.4068e730.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <20060526144216.GZ13513@lug-owl.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1568 Lines: 44 On Fri, 26 May 2006, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > On Fri, 2006-05-26 03:14:06 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > "Randy.Dunlap" writes: > > > This patch is against 2.6.17-rc5, for review/comments, please. > > > It won't apply to -mm since Andrew has merged the uts-namespace patches. > > > I'll see about merging it with those patches next. > > > --- > > > > > > From: Randy Dunlap > > > > > > Implement POSIX-defined length for 'hostname' so that hostnames > > > can be longer than 64 characters (max. 255 characters plus > > > terminating NULL character). > > > > > > Adds sys_gethostname_long() and sys_sethostname_long(). > > > Tested on i386 and x86_64. > > > > Is there any particular reason for this? > > The existing sys_gethostname and sys_sethostname interfaces > > should work for any string length. > > > > Although I do agree that we need at least one new syscall > > for the architectures that don't currently use get_hostname. > > ...and this should have gone to linux-arch, too... so how does someone know: (a) that this should have gone to linux-arch (b) that linux-arch exists (c) what it's full email address it? I.e., where is all of this explained? Thanks. -- ~Randy I'll get to Eric's questions later. I'm in a meeting today. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/