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why is hostname(1) output in UPPERCASE?


Hello,

Why is hostname(1) output in UPPERCASE, when the native Windows 2000
hostname.exe outputs lowercase? Is this something I've unwittingly
enabled? Regardless, shouldn't RFC 1178's suggestion be followed? (It
states, "convention dictates that computer names appear all lowercase.")
Or is this a sh-utils rather than a cygwin bug?

Here's my current output:

    ead@COWBERRY ~
    $ hostname
    COWBERRY

    ead@COWBERRY ~
    $ /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/hostname
    cowberry

    ead@COWBERRY ~
    $

This is in a brand new and complete 2003.01.09 download and install of
cygwin on a Windows 2000 Professional SP2 machine (under both bash(1)
and zsh(1)). See the output of "cygcheck --sysinfo", below, if
necessary.

Many thanks,
Eric

------------------------------
Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics
Current System Time: Thu Jan 09 23:07:03 2003

Windows 2000 Professional Ver 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 2

Path:   C:\pkg\cygwin\usr\local\bin
        C:\pkg\cygwin\bin
        C:\pkg\cygwin\bin
        c:\WINNT\system32
        c:\WINNT
        c:\WINNT\System32\Wbem
        C:\pkg\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin

SysDir: C:\WINNT\System32
WinDir: C:\WINNT

HOME = `c:\home\ead'
MAKE_MODE = `unix'
PWD = `/cygdrive/c/home/ead'
USER = `ead'

Use `-r' to scan registry

a:  fd           N/A    N/A
c:  hd  NTFS   19085Mb  50% CP CS UN PA FC
d:  hd           N/A    N/A
e:  cd           N/A    N/A
f:  cd           N/A    N/A

C:\pkg\cygwin                          /                         system  binmode
C:\pkg\cygwin/bin                      /usr/bin                  system  binmode
C:\pkg\cygwin/lib                      /usr/lib                  system  binmode
C:\pkg\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts  /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts  system  binmode
.                                      /cygdrive                 user    binmode,cygdrive

Found: C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\bash.exe
Found: C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cat.exe
Found: C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cpp.exe
Found: C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\find.exe
Found: C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\gcc.exe
Found: C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\gdb.exe
Found: C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\ld.exe
Found: C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\ls.exe
Found: C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\make.exe
Found: C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\sh.exe

   58k 2002/05/07 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygbz2-1.dll
   54k 2002/01/27 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygbz21.0.dll
    6k 2002/06/24 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygcharset-1.dll
  644k 2002/12/08 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygcrypto.dll
  493k 2002/11/19 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygcurl-2.dll
  380k 2002/07/24 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygdb-3.1.dll
  326k 2002/06/26 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygdb2.dll
  487k 2002/07/24 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygdb_cxx-3.1.dll
  136k 2002/10/17 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygexpat-0.dll
   50k 2002/03/17 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygexslt-0.dll
   45k 2001/04/25 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygform5.dll
   35k 2002/01/09 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygform6.dll
   19k 2002/02/20 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cyggdbm.dll
  490k 2002/09/21 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygguile-12.dll
  488k 2002/07/18 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygguile-14.dll
   63k 2002/07/18 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygguile-srfi-srfi-13-14-1.dll
   63k 2002/09/21 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygguile-srfi-srfi-13-14-v-1-1.dll
   24k 2002/07/18 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygguile-srfi-srfi-4-1.dll
   24k 2002/09/21 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygguile-srfi-srfi-4-v-1-1.dll
   14k 2002/07/18 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygguilereadline-14.dll
   14k 2002/09/21 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygguilereadline-v-12-12.dll
   17k 2001/06/28 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cyghistory4.dll
   20k 2002/10/10 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cyghistory5.dll
  306k 2002/04/27 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cyghttpd.dll
  929k 2002/06/24 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygiconv-2.dll
   22k 2001/12/13 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygintl-1.dll
   28k 2002/09/20 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygintl-2.dll
   21k 2001/06/20 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygintl.dll
   45k 2002/02/08 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygjbig1.dll
  119k 2002/02/09 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygjpeg6b.dll
   59k 2002/09/20 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygkpathsea-3-3-7.dll
   32k 2003/01/04 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygltdl-3.dll
   26k 2001/04/25 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygmenu5.dll
   20k 2002/01/09 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygmenu6.dll
  156k 2001/04/25 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygncurses++5.dll
  175k 2002/01/09 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygncurses++6.dll
  226k 2001/04/25 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygncurses5.dll
  202k 2002/01/09 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygncurses6.dll
   15k 2001/04/25 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygpanel5.dll
   12k 2002/01/09 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygpanel6.dll
   40k 2001/11/21 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygpcre.dll
   39k 2001/11/21 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygpcreposix.dll
  175k 2002/07/22 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygpng10.dll
  179k 2002/07/22 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygpng12.dll
  170k 2002/01/21 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygpng2.dll
   22k 2002/06/09 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygpopt-0.dll
  108k 2001/06/28 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygreadline4.dll
  127k 2002/10/10 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygreadline5.dll
  165k 2002/12/08 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygssl.dll
  550k 2002/12/19 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygtcl83.dll
   12k 2002/12/19 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygtclpip83.dll
  253k 2002/02/10 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygtiff3.dll
  217k 2002/12/19 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygtix4183.dll
  830k 2002/12/19 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygtk83.dll
   25k 2002/07/14 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygungif-4.dll
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  633k 2002/07/22 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygxml2-2.dll
   41k 2002/01/20 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygXpm-noX4.dll
   46k 2002/01/20 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygXpm-X4.dll
  152k 2002/03/17 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygxslt-1.dll
   15k 2002/03/17 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygxsltbreakpoint-1.dll
   50k 2002/03/12 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygz.dll
  880k 2002/12/25 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll
    Cygwin DLL version info:
        DLL version: 1.3.18
        DLL epoch: 19
        DLL bad signal mask: 19005
        DLL old termios: 5
        DLL malloc env: 28
        API major: 0
        API minor: 69
        Shared data: 3
        DLL identifier: cygwin1
        Mount registry: 2
        Cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions
        Cygwin registry name: Cygwin
        Program options name: Program Options
        Cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2
        Cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags
        Cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix
        Cygdrive default prefix:
        Build date: Wed Dec 25 15:37:50 EST 2002
        Shared id: cygwin1S3

   41k 2002/05/14 C:\pkg\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\cygPropList-0.dll

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