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Re: cvs emacs and (system-name)
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: cvs emacs and (system-name) |
Date: |
Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:25:13 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.94 (gnu/linux) |
>>>> I don't really have a domain I would put my machine in, and I think
>>>> a reasonable number of people may fall into this category. Emacs
>>>> picking "localhost.localdomain" over the actual name of my machine
>>>> still seems a bit odd.
Stefan> But it's kind of difficult for Emacs to guess which of the
Stefan> three names you put there is "my machine name".
> My recollection is that traditionally the first host name is
> considered the canonical one. 'man 5 hosts' backs me up on this :)
I believe the problem is that it is common to see entries in arbitrary order
in there. Especially the fully-qualified entry is not necessarily first
(although it should).
> I don't have any other entry in /etc/hosts. My machine has no fixed
> address and is not in a domain. This, I believe, is extremely common
> among laptop users.
And in that case it's indeed rather unimportant which name Emacs chooses.
> Perhaps if only "localhost" and "localhost.localdomain" are found,
> Emacs could fall back to gethostname(2) or uname(2). With glibc the
> latter appears to try to return the domain name as well.
What I was suggesting (tho implicitly) is to do that whenever the IP address
is 127.*.*.*.
Stefan
- Re: cvs emacs and (system-name), (continued)
- Re: cvs emacs and (system-name), Tom Tromey, 2007/04/17
- Re: cvs emacs and (system-name), Chong Yidong, 2007/04/17
- Re: cvs emacs and (system-name), Tom Tromey, 2007/04/17
- Re: cvs emacs and (system-name), Richard Stallman, 2007/04/18
- Re: cvs emacs and (system-name), Glenn Morris, 2007/04/18
- Re: cvs emacs and (system-name), Tom Tromey, 2007/04/18
- Re: cvs emacs and (system-name), Glenn Morris, 2007/04/19
- Re: cvs emacs and (system-name), Stefan Monnier, 2007/04/19
- Re: cvs emacs and (system-name), Tom Tromey, 2007/04/19
- Re: cvs emacs and (system-name), Chong Yidong, 2007/04/19
- Re: cvs emacs and (system-name),
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: cvs emacs and (system-name), Stefan Monnier, 2007/04/19
- Re: cvs emacs and (system-name), Chong Yidong, 2007/04/19
- Re: cvs emacs and (system-name), Glenn Morris, 2007/04/19
- Re: cvs emacs and (system-name), Richard Stallman, 2007/04/20
- Re: cvs emacs and (system-name), Chong Yidong, 2007/04/20
- Re: cvs emacs and (system-name), Richard Stallman, 2007/04/19
- Re: cvs emacs and (system-name), Glenn Morris, 2007/04/19
- Re: cvs emacs and (system-name), Richard Stallman, 2007/04/19
- Re: cvs emacs and (system-name), Glenn Morris, 2007/04/19