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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Re: bin/12311: Sys::Hostname.pm hangs forever
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> >> There is no gethostname syscall.
> 
> > Then I'm seriously confused. I have a gethostname(3) manpage on my
> > FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT system.
> 
> Exactly.  If it were a syscall it would be in section 2.

Not quite.  Syscall #87 is the BSD4.3 compatibility syscall for
gethostname().  This should not be used in new code, of course.

Bruce


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