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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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