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Re: sethostname()
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Marcus Brinkmann |
Subject: |
Re: sethostname() |
Date: |
Sat, 3 Nov 2001 17:47:11 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.3.23i |
On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 08:04:53AM -0800, James Morrison wrote:
> It seems anytime I use sethostname(), in hostname or in my own
> program.
>
> int main() {
> sethostname("me",3);
This should be "me",2, if I am not mistaken. You don't want to write the
trailing zero to the file.
> printf("%i:%s\n",errno,strerror(errno));
> }
>
> sethostname always returns bad file descriptor.
If it really fails, debug it! Install libc0.2-dbg, download the X sources
and set a break point on _hurd_set_host_config (file libc/hurd/set-host.c).
Thanks,
Marcus
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