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From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/lib gethostname.pl Makefile
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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