[PATCH RESEND] uts: Set default hostname to "localhost", rather than "(none)"

Josh Triplett
2011-04-11T05:08:53Z

The "hostname" tool falls back to setting the hostname to "localhost" if
/etc/hostname does not exist. Distribution init scripts have the same
fallback. However, if userspace never calls sethostname, such as when
booting with init=/bin/sh, or otherwise booting a minimal system without
the usual init scripts, the default hostname of "(none)" remains,
unhelpfully appearing in various places such as prompts
("root@(none):~#") and logs. Furthrmore, "(none)" doesn't typically
resolve to anything useful, while "localhost" does.

Change the default hostname to "localhost". This removes the need for
the standard fallback, provides a useful default for systems that never
call sethostname, and makes minimal systems that much more useful with
less configuration.

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
---

Looked at "(none)" one too many times, and figured I ought to do
something about it.

Resending, and adding CCs for networking and UTS.

include/linux/uts.h | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/uts.h b/include/linux/uts.h
index 73eb1ed..610bec2 100644
--- a/include/linux/uts.h
+++ b/include/linux/uts.h
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
#endif

#ifndef UTS_NODENAME
-#define UTS_NODENAME "(none)" /* set by sethostname() */
+#define UTS_NODENAME "localhost" /* set by sethostname() */
#endif

#ifndef UTS_DOMAINNAME
--
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