"Thomas E. Spanjaard" <tgen@netphreax.net> writes:
> john heasley wrote:
>> A hostname is a not a FQDN, so why should gethostname() should return a
>> FQDN.
>
> I agree. This is bad naming, especially when you combine it with the
> availability of domainname as well. And domainname is for
> NIS...

This has nothing to do with the NIS "domainname".

There is nothing that I can tell that says a host name should or
should not be an FQDN, but more things seem to want it to be an FQDN
with time.

Perry