Re: OS X (or other OS's): how to get a fully-qualified domain name?

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> This does bring up the larger point, however, that there might be
> circumstances where emacs DOES need to know its fully qualified domain
> name, and there does not seem to be a way to get it, which is unfortunate.

But this is *very* rare.  And for good reasons: it's not really clear what
it means.  A machine can have:
- no fully qualified name (if you're not connected to the net).
- 1 FQDN
- several different FQDN (using only one IP address or using several IP
  addresses via a single network interface, or over several network
  interfaces, ...).


-- Stefan