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([2001:a61:257e:2f01:31ee:f41e:c688:df4]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id l62sm1406329wml.13.2019.08.26.14.02.22 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 26 Aug 2019 14:02:23 -0700 (PDT) Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, linux-man@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] gethostname.2: wfix To: Jakub Wilk References: <20190826111155.9223-1-jwilk@jwilk.net> From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Message-ID: <4aaea00b-ed32-d29c-9440-3e52decb8084@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 23:02:20 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.6.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20190826111155.9223-1-jwilk@jwilk.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-man-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Hello Jakub On 8/26/19 1:11 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote: > Signed-off-by: Jakub Wilk > --- > man2/gethostname.2 | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/man2/gethostname.2 b/man2/gethostname.2 > index 4659337cc..5d6c20b0b 100644 > --- a/man2/gethostname.2 > +++ b/man2/gethostname.2 > @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ _BSD_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE\ >=\ 500 > .ad > .SH DESCRIPTION > These system calls are used to access or to change the hostname of the > -current processor. > +current machine. > .PP > .BR sethostname () > sets the hostname to the value given in the character array Instead, I applied the patch below. Thanks, Michael diff --git a/man2/gethostname.2 b/man2/gethostname.2 index 4659337cc..a07d06fa5 100644 --- a/man2/gethostname.2 +++ b/man2/gethostname.2 @@ -67,8 +67,9 @@ _BSD_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE\ >=\ 500 .PD .ad .SH DESCRIPTION -These system calls are used to access or to change the hostname of the -current processor. +These system calls are used to access or to change the system hostname. +More precisely, they operate on the hostname associated with the calling +process's UTS namespace. .PP .BR sethostname () sets the hostname to the value given in the character array @@ -184,4 +185,5 @@ set to .BR hostname (1), .BR getdomainname (2), .BR setdomainname (2), -.BR uname (2) +.BR uname (2), +.BR uts_namespaces (7) -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/