Re: NetworkManager-list Digest, Vol 49, Issue 2

[Howard Chu <hyc symas com>]

> Message: 5
> Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 23:58:22 +0200
> From: Alexander Sack<asac jwsdot com>
> Subject: [PATCH] hostname support for ifupdown plugin + allow
> 	read-only	hostname system provider + move nm_inotify_helper to plugin
> 	independent place (system-settings/src/)
> To: networkmanager-list gnome org
> Message-ID:<20081001215822 GC26713 jwsdot com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> Implement system hostname support for debian/ubuntu
>
> Fix "only system-setting plugins with NM_SYSTEM_CONFIG_INTERFACE_CAP_MODIFY_HOSTNAME
> are considered a valid hostname provider"
>
> Make nm-inotify-helper from ifcfg-fedora plugin usable
> for other plugins too

Is any of that really necessary? Any tool that rewrites /etc/hostname is also 
going to already call sethostname(); shouldn't you only need to call 
gethostname() to get NM in sync? Why go thru the hassle of opening and reading 
a file and calling sethostname() to tell the kernel what it already knows?

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