Re: CVS commit: src/bin/hostname

[Erik Fair <fair%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Jul 19, 2013, at 03:34, "Roy Marples" <roy%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:

> Module Name:  src
> Committed By: roy
> Date:         Fri Jul 19 10:34:51 UTC 2013
> 
> Modified Files:
>       src/bin/hostname: hostname.1 hostname.c
> 
> Log Message:
> Add the following options
> -A Display the FQDN of each address on all interfaces.
> -a Display alias name(s) of the host.
> -d Display the DNS domain.
> -f Display the FQDN for the hostname.
> -I Display each IP address on all interfaces.
> -i Display the IP address(es) for the hostname.
> 

Not to go all Rob Pike on you (cf. "cat -v considered harmful"), but what the 
heck is all this for? The system's hostname is supposed to be the FQDN, not the 
short form (Sun got this wrong), and what the hell is hostname doing groveling 
around in network interfaces? Or talking to the DNS?

hostname(1) has one job: set/get the system hostname.

Does some other (*cough* Linux) system do these other things that we maybe 
might need to be … "compatible" with it for scripts?

        curious,

        Erik <fair%netbsd.org@localhost>