On 06-Oct-05, 08:25 (CDT), Gabor Gombas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> It's being long-standing does not mean it's correct.
No, but it doesn't make changing it correct, either.
Again: what actual technical problem is solved by
'localhost.localdomain"? Is solving that problem worth the potential
breakage of existing code that assumes gethostbyaddr(127.0.0.1) ==
"localhost". Note that I'm not arguing such code is correct, but I don't
see the need to pointlessly break it.
There are lots of long-standing characteristics of Unix systems that
are not required by RFCs or Posix standards, yet we don't go about
arbitrarily changing them.
Steve
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system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the
world. -- seen on the net
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