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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: init_system_name fqdn?
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2017 12:30:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv4lvey3x3.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: q52injuem1u.fsf@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu

> 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




  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-17 16:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-16 14:17 init_system_name fqdn? Ken Olum
2017-06-16 14:33 ` Yuri Khan
2017-06-16 18:10   ` Ken Olum
2017-06-17  3:45     ` Tim Cross
2017-06-17 14:17       ` Ken Olum
2017-06-17 16:30         ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2017-06-18  1:48         ` Tim Cross
2017-06-17 15:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-06-17 17:10   ` Ken Olum
2017-06-17 17:29     ` Stefan Monnier
2017-06-17 18:52       ` Paul Eggert
2017-06-17 19:51         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2017-06-17 22:30           ` Ken Olum

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