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) Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
