Re: [Emacs-diffs] master f9acac7: system-name's returned value can vary

[Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>]

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Stefan Monnier wrote:
> IIUC this also resolves the long standing etc/PROBLEMS:

Right you are, and thanks for mentioning it.  Plus, we shouldn't need to mention 
/etc/hosts or NIS.  I installed the attached.

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From 8712cfecca8d56f71bfc5f4b003dba849fcd1af6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 20:42:26 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] * PROBLEMS: Omit obsolete mention of FQDNs.

---
 etc/ChangeLog |  4 ++++
 etc/PROBLEMS  | 15 ++-------------
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/etc/ChangeLog b/etc/ChangeLog
index ee0958f..3c48c51 100644
--- a/etc/ChangeLog
+++ b/etc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2014-12-30  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
+
+	* PROBLEMS: Omit obsolete mention of FQDNs.
+
 2014-12-27  Álvar Ibeas  <ibeas@gmx.com>  (tiny change)
 
 	* tutorials/TUTORIAL.es: Improve style consistency.  Spelling fixes.
diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS
index 67a26b9..e1463f1 100644
--- a/etc/PROBLEMS
+++ b/etc/PROBLEMS
@@ -364,8 +364,8 @@ For example, (system-name) returns some variation on
 "localhost.localdomain", rather the name you were expecting.
 
 You need to configure your machine with a fully qualified domain name,
-(i.e. a name with at least one ".") either in /etc/hosts,
-/etc/hostname, the NIS, or wherever your system calls for specifying this.
+(i.e., a name with at least one "."), either in /etc/hostname
+or wherever your system calls for specifying this.
 
 If you cannot fix the configuration, you can set the Lisp variable
 mail-host-address to the value you want.
@@ -457,17 +457,6 @@ problem by adding this to your .cshrc file:
         endif
     endif
 
-*** Emacs startup on GNU/Linux systems (and possibly other systems) is slow.
-
-This can happen if the system is misconfigured and Emacs can't get the
-full qualified domain name, FQDN.  You should have your FQDN in the
-/etc/hosts file, something like this:
-
-127.0.0.1	localhost
-129.187.137.82	nuc04.t30.physik.tu-muenchen.de	nuc04
-
-The way to set this up may vary on non-GNU systems.
-
 *** Attempting to visit remote files via ange-ftp fails.
 
 If the error message is "ange-ftp-file-modtime: Specified time is not
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