[OPEN-ILS-DEV] PATCH: using gethostname()

[Mike Rylander]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:06 PM, Scott McKellar <mck9 at swbell.net> wrote:
> These three patches are independent of each other, but they all do the
>  same thing.
>
>  In each case, we had been getting the local host name by reading the
>  environmental variable $HOSTNAME.  This approach normally works, but
>  it is vulnerable to abuse or error by a user who modifies the value
>  of that variable, or even unsets it altogether.
>
>  With these patches we will instead call gethostname(), which is not
>  affected by changes in the environment.

Applied.

>
>  Scott McKellar
>  http://home.swbell.net/mck9/ct/
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