Re: cvs emacs and (system-name)

[Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>]

Tom Tromey wrote:

> 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.

At the moment, we prefer any name with a "." in. We could skip
"localhost.localdomain":

*** sysdep.c	21 Jan 2007 04:18:15 -0000	1.278
--- sysdep.c	19 Apr 2007 05:00:41 -0000
***************
*** 2433,2439 ****
  		/* We still don't have a fully qualified domain name.
  		   Try to find one in the list of alternate names */
  		char **alias = hp->h_aliases;
! 		while (*alias && !index (*alias, '.'))
  		  alias++;
  		if (*alias)
  		  fqdn = *alias;
--- 2433,2440 ----
  		/* We still don't have a fully qualified domain name.
  		   Try to find one in the list of alternate names */
  		char **alias = hp->h_aliases;
! 		while (*alias && ( !index (*alias, '.') ||
! 		     !strcmp (*alias, "localhost.localdomain" ) ) )
  		  alias++;
  		if (*alias)
  		  fqdn = *alias;