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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: bin/12311: Sys::Hostname.pm hangs forever 
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The following reply was made to PR bin/12311; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: bin/12311: Sys::Hostname.pm hangs forever 
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 13:22:46 -0400 (EDT)

 <<On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 09:50:01 -0700 (PDT), Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> said:
 
 >  Your fix definitely makes the problem go away, but what about callers
 >  that really _don't_ want to receive a SIGCHLD?
  
 The correct fix is to create a FreeBSD-specific mechanism to get the
 hostname.  (This took me all of ten minutes to do, most of which was
 deleting all of the cruft h2xs put in that was not needed.)  Then,
 Sys::Hostname gets the following addition:
 
 	} elsif ($^O eq 'freebsd') {
 		require FreeBSD;
 		$host = "\0" x 1024; # XXX should import MAXHOSTNAMELEN
 		&FreeBSD::gethostname($host, length($host));
 	}
 
 -GAWollman
 
 


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