Re: declare sethostname if unistd.h doesn't

[Ben Walton]

Excerpts from Simon Josefsson's message of Sun Nov 20 14:04:42 -0500 2011:

Hi Simon,

> Have you tested that it resolves the portability issue?  If so that is
> great.  My man page says Solaris uses this prototype:
> 
>      int sethostname(char *name, int namelen);

I used a modified version of the patch to compile inetutils and got
to the logprio.h issue, which was past the sethostname issue.

> however possibly int and size_t have the same size on all Solaris 8 and
> 9 architectures?

You're right that this should be int though.  That's what the solaris
man page indicates...I grabbed the prototype from the wrong terminal
it would seem.

> In any case, I support installing this if it does something useful
> on at least some (Solaris) machine, since the current situation does
> not appear to work on any (Solaris) machine.

It could be a local modification of the inetutils gnulib code until
the proper version is implemented?

Thanks
-Ben
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