[PATCH] do not use gethostbyname() for hostname -s

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Monday 09 December 2013 18:56, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> There's no reason to call gethostbyname() on the value returned
> by uname() when asked just for a short name of a host.  This may
> also be wrong, when uname is set to one value, but in /etc/hosts
> (or elsewhere) the "canonical" name is different.  This is often
> the case for localhost entry in /etc/hosts:
> 
>   127.0.0.1	localhost	myname
> 
> With this content of /etc/hosts, and uname being set to myname,
> busybox hostname -s will return localhost, while regular
> hostname utility returns myname.

Can you send strace of regular hostname's run?
I would like to see whether it does any name resolution...

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vda