From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: init_system_name fqdn? Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2017 12:30:52 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1497717106 32134 195.159.176.226 (17 Jun 2017 16:31:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2017 16:31:46 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 17 18:31:43 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dMGdS-00089A-Je for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Jun 2017 18:31:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35693 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dMGdX-0007ip-Ta for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Jun 2017 12:31:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52367) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dMGct-0007ic-Sd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Jun 2017 12:31:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dMGcn-0006yK-I1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Jun 2017 12:31:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=50869 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dMGcn-0006xx-BP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Jun 2017 12:31:01 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dMGcf-0005YB-J2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Jun 2017 18:30:53 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:z8OU+44/Si7SlxHVO3z/XXTVOb0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:215701 Archived-At: > exactly how it fails. But if your system is properly set up as an > Internet host but gethostname does not return the FQDN (e.g., because > you put the short name first in /etc/hosts), then I think > init_system_name should use the FQDN. How do you suggest Emacs decide whether the "system is properly set up as an Internet host"? Why don't you just set up /etc/hostname (I don't think /etc/hosts is consulted to compute `system-name`) with the FQDN instead of a short name on those hosts that are properly setup as an Internet host? Stefan