xorg xinit: use `uname -n` instead of `hostname`
Alan Coopersmith
alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Fri Sep 18 17:31:23 UTC 2020
On 9/18/20 5:36 AM, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> Hi Alan
>
>
> Could you take a look at https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xinit/-/issues/18 ?
>
> It's a simple portability fix for xorg xinit, allowing Linux users
> to get rid of legacy inetutils (package providing hostname but also
> rlogin/rsh/rcp, talk telnet, and other dinosaurs) on their systems.
>
> Someone else already made a merge request for this:
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xinit/-/merge_requests/3
I've cc'ed the developer list since I don't know if there are any platforms
this will cause problems for. (I'm one of the last people to ask about
Linux issues, since I work on Solaris, not Linux.)
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
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