On 2009-12-31 14:10:46 +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 02:02:36PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > POSIX says: > > > > If the AI_CANONNAME flag is specified and the nodename argument is > > not null, the function shall attempt to determine the canonical name > > corresponding to nodename (for example, if nodename is an alias or > > shorthand notation for a complete name). > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > > So, it isn't intended to be a short name. As this is mostly > > implementation defined, it may be difficult to be very accurate. > > Where does the above say it must be a FQDN ? It says that *for example*, > *if* nodename is blah blah. So, what if the nodename is *not* that ? > (which it is not on a lot of hosts)
If it is not that, it is the complete name. But since it is implementation-defined, which Debian's document defines the canonical name? Do you suggest that getnameinfo() be used to get the FQDN? -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arénaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
