On Mar 31 15:23, Renato Silva wrote:
> The gethostname function has a problem where a small buffer size will
> not produce an accurate errno. This is because the Windows error is
> not being appropriately mapped. This causes programs such as hostname
> from coreutils to fail because they are not informed about the long
> name.
> 
> Changelog entry:
> 2015-03-31  Renato Silva
>     * net.cc: Fix buffer size error handling in cygwin_gethostname.

Good catch.  Patch applied.


Thanks,
Corinna

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