From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] uts: Make default hostname configurable, rather than
 always using "(none)"
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 20:35:37 +0900
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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
To: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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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. =A0Distribution init scripts have the s=
ame
> fallback. =A0However, if userspace never calls sethostname, such as w=
hen
> booting with init=3D/bin/sh, or otherwise booting a minimal system wi=
thout
> the usual init scripts, the default hostname of "(none)" remains,
> unhelpfully appearing in various places such as prompts
> ("root@(none):~#") and logs. =A0Furthermore, "(none)" doesn't typical=
ly
> 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