Hi! I believe it is used by Shishi — https://www.gnu.org/software/shishi/manual/html_node/Utility-Functions.html — however I am sure it can be worked around by including the gnulib implementation directly. What problems does it cause to keep around? It is rather small.
/Simon > 2 apr. 2021 kl. 02:39 skrev Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu>: > > While looking into memory allocation issues I noticed the xgetdomainname > module. As far as I know, nobody uses it, so I propose we remove it. The > getdomainname function is used for the NIS domain name, and few programs > would need that nowadays, as the world has mostly moved on to LDAP etc. > > xgetdomainname was written by Simon Josefsson. I checked the GNU programs I > thought he might be contributing to (GnuTLS, libtasn1, nettle, Emacs, > inetutils) and xgetdomainname doesn't seem to be used there any more.
