On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 08:04:53AM -0800, James Morrison wrote: > It seems anytime I use sethostname(), in hostname or in my own > program. > > int main() { > sethostname("me",3);
This should be "me",2, if I am not mistaken. You don't want to write the trailing zero to the file. > printf("%i:%s\n",errno,strerror(errno)); > } > > sethostname always returns bad file descriptor. If it really fails, debug it! Install libc0.2-dbg, download the X sources and set a break point on _hurd_set_host_config (file libc/hurd/set-host.c). Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd