On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 04:50:48PM -0500, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> On Nov 14, 10:01pm, is@jocelyn.rhein.de (Ignatios Souvatzis) wrote:
> -- Subject: Re: gethostname and getdomainname
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> | On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 09:29:10PM +0100, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
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> | > I really think we should also swallow the error there.
> | > 
> | > > I still think though that it is better
> | > > to make sysctl return a non-null-terminated string.
> | > 
> | > Thats fine with me. 
> | > 
> | > To summarize, I would
> | > 
> | > - fix sysctl so that it returns the truncated string, non-null-terminated,
> | >   and create an appropriate error. I think copyoutstr will do the job nicely
> | >   for us.
> | 
> | Didn't need to. First, it returns an errno not documented in sysctl(3), 2nd,
> | I need to explictly get at the length anyhow (for passing it back), so it 
> | can use copyout, like before.
> | 
> | Here's the kern_sysctl.c patch for review:
> 
> Looks fine to me. I still think gethostname() should return an error
> if it truncates. How else will you know if it did truncate?

I don't know wether XPGwhatwasit specifies an error, but SUSV2 does not, and
no other system does, so it wouldn't be portable.

I guess nobody else really cared...

	-is