From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>,
pkg-sysvinit-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] uts: Make default hostname configurable, rather than always using "(none)"
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 20:35:37 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTikgqkd0BckvTrFwAOmJQ0ObP4OOjg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110530223847.GA29245@leaf>
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 7:38 AM, Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> wrote:
>
> 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. Furthermore, "(none)" doesn't typically
> resolve to anything useful.
Ok, I'm fine with this. So Ack as far as I'm concerned.
Does this make most sense through the networking tree, or what?
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-31 11:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-30 22:38 [PATCH] uts: Make default hostname configurable, rather than always using "(none)" Josh Triplett
2011-05-31 11:35 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2011-05-31 19:46 ` David Miller
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