Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 16:30:19 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-gnu@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/lib gethostname.pl Makefile Message-ID: <199602132330.QAA24492@rocky.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <199602132300.AAA06395@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <199602131750.KAA22891@rocky.sri.MT.net> <199602132300.AAA06395@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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> > Paul Traina writes: > > > This is non-standard (albiet nice to have), which will make porting away > > > from FBSD more difficult. Caveat Emptor. > > > > Unless you bring in the package with anything exported from FreeBSD. > > The problem is that there's no generic way for hooking gethostname(3) > into a Perl script. > > should always do the trick. My concern was to avoid the overhead from > the additional process, and the fact that i don't like to call > unneeded external programs at all in setuid scripts. Isn't calling sysctl an additiona/external program? Nate
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