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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA636 ; Sat, 06 Feb 93 13:00:23 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!olivea!uunet!emba-news.uvm.edu!sadye.emba.uvm.edu!wollman From: wollman@sadye.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: SYS_getdomainname error (using getdomainname patch) Message-ID: <1993Jan31.194843.20328@uvm.edu> Date: 31 Jan 93 19:48:43 GMT References: <1ka4e3INNi4p@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> <1993Jan29.174916.15369@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <1kbounINN1fh@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> Sender: news@uvm.edu Organization: University of Vermont, EMBA Computer Facility Lines: 15 One thing I don't understand in all this is, why should this even be a system call? (Maybe I should ask Sun, since it's their idea...) I can't see any reason whatsoever why this shouldn't be implemented as simple library functions that read and write a file (say, /etc/domainname, or even better /etc/resolv.conf when possible). I have always believed in the rule that ``if it can reasonably be implemented in the library, then it has no business in the kernel.'' -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@emba.uvm.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. uvm-gen!wollman | It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people UVM disagrees. | who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant