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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 00:59:47 +0100
From: Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com>
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To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: $HOSTNAME doesn't override library code
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Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com

Hello.

I've just been looking at the source file
src/libc/compat/unistd/gethostn.c and I noticed that you cannot override
the string returned by gethostname() by setting $HOSTNAME. Would it not be
better to let the user override it? Otherwise programs are stuck with the
ugly LAN Manager names - no DNS domain name, etc.

This behaviour seems to contradict the approach taken with $USER.