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Re: Patches for Full Qualified, Mixed Case Hostnames
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Mark . Burgess |
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Re: Patches for Full Qualified, Mixed Case Hostnames |
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Fri, 9 Jan 2004 12:56:06 +0100 (MET) |
Patched in 2.1.1
M
On 30 Nov, Bob Van Valzah wrote:
> Dear cfengine maintainers,
>
> I'm attaching three patches that I've found necessary to run cfengine in
> my environment. Others wouldn't need these patches if they used
> hostnames that were not fully qualified or if they were fully qualified
> but used all lower case.
>
> I suspect that these patches make cfengine more general and also provide
> a very small speed improvement. I'm just calling case insensative
> string comparisons whenever domain names are involved. I'd guess that
> this is a tad faster than malloc()ing space for a lower case version of
> the domain name.
>
> Before incorporating these patches, you should check to make sure that
> strcasestr() is present on all platforms where strstr() is present.
> I've only verified it for FreeBSD and Linux (RH 7.3).
>
> I should also say it's tricky to find out why cfengine doesn't work in
> an environment like mine. Incorporating these patches into the source
> tree would save others the pain I've felt.
>
> Line numbers are relative to 2.1.0p1.
>
> Thanks for your consideration. And thanks for your work on cfengine!
>
> Bob
>
>
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