- add note to hostname man page about gethostbyname() (#166581)

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Radek Vokál 2005-10-15 09:53:21 +00:00
parent e6ca95f618
commit 027a461ca2
2 changed files with 40 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
--- net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/hostname.1.gethostbyname 2005-10-14 11:33:41.000000000 +0200
+++ net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/hostname.1 2005-10-15 11:46:14.646697600 +0200
@@ -99,6 +99,32 @@
complete FQDN of the system is returned with
.BR "hostname \-\-fqdn" .
+.LP
+The function
+.BR gethostname(2)
+is used to get the hostname. Only when the
+.BR "hostname \-s"
+is called will
+.BR gethostbyname(2)
+be called. The difference in
+.BR gethostname(2)
+and
+.BR gethostbyname(2)
+is that
+.BR gethostbyname(2)
+is network aware, so it consults
+.IR /etc/nsswitch.conf
+and
+.IR /etc/host.conf
+to decide whether to read information in
+.IR /etc/sysconfig/network
+or
+.IR /etc/hosts
+. To add another dimension to this,
+the
+.B hostname
+is also set when the network interface is brought up.
+
.SS "SET NAME"
When called with one argument or with the
.B \-\-file

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Summary: Basic networking tools.
Name: net-tools
Version: 1.60
Release: 56
Release: 57
License: GPL
Group: System Environment/Base
Source0: http://www.tazenda.demon.co.uk/phil/net-tools/net-tools-%{version}.tar.bz2
@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ Patch40: net-tools-1.60-stdo.patch
Patch41: net-tools-1.60-statistics.patch
Patch42: net-tools-1.60-ifconfig.patch
Patch43: net-tools-1.60-arp_overflow.patch
Patch44: net-tools-1.60-hostname_man.patch
BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-root
Requires(post,preun): chkconfig
@ -106,6 +107,7 @@ ifconfig, netstat, route, and others.
%patch41 -p1 -b .statistics
%patch42 -p1 -b .iface_drop
%patch43 -p1 -b .overflow
%patch44 -p1 -b .hostname_man
cp %SOURCE2 ./config.h
cp %SOURCE3 ./config.make
@ -217,6 +219,8 @@ exit 0
%{_sysconfdir}/rc.d/init.d/netplugd
%changelog
* Sat Oct 15 2005 Radek Vokal <rvokal@redhat.com> 1.60-57
- add note to hostname man page about gethostbyname() (#166581)
- don't ship any rarp man page (#170537)
* Wed Aug 03 2005 Radek Vokal <rvokal@redhat.com> 1.60-56