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Re: [PATCH] Hide sethostname() in unistd.h
- From: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 15:57:34 -0500
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Hide sethostname() in unistd.h
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On Wed, 2015-06-17 at 22:25 +0200, Christian Franke wrote:
> Busybox does not use autoconf or similar. It requires manual platform
> specific configuration which does not yet support a missing
> sethostname(). After adding HAVE_SETHOSTNAME manually and some other
> minor additions, busybox (which many commands enabled) compiles and
> works reasonably.
> Would ITP make sense ?
TBH I'm not sure. Presuming you're discussing the single-executable
build (so as not to clobber coreutils etc.), there is still the question
of (not) matching the heavily-patched coreutils wrt .exe handling etc.
What do you think the use case would be?
--
Yaakov