On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 08:42:16AM -0500, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> 
> Solaris claims that the return buffer is not null terminated, but then
> goes ahead and null terminates it :-)

Note that it does NOT return an error in this case, which still makes us
different from it (and SunOS4, and Ultrix, and DU4) if we follow this 
suggestion:

> Ok. I suppose then that it is better to null terminate the buffer in
> gethostname() and return an error.

I really think we should also swallow the error there.

> I still think though that it is better
> to make sysctl return a non-null-terminated string.

Thats fine with me. 

To summarize, I would

- fix sysctl so that it returns the truncated string, non-null-terminated,
  and create an appropriate error. I think copyoutstr will do the job nicely
  for us.

- fix gethostname/getdomainname so that if ENAMETOOLONG is returned from the
  above, it will restore the old errno and null terminate the string

Regards,
	Ignatios