From: cgf AT cygnus DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
Subject: Re: b20 patch: 'gethostname()' from winsock
2 Nov 1998 17:23:29 -0800
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To: Corinna Vinschen <corinna DOT vinschen AT cityweb DOT de>,
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This change has been committed.

On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 12:56:05AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>The following patch would allow, to get your hostname from the
>winsock library, if it's installed. The result could be different
>from the now only used 'GetComputerName()', because this function
>takes the windows computer name, instead of the tcp/ip hostname.
>The following patch checks, if it's possible, to get the hostname
>from winsock, else it uses GetComputerName. The (possible) use of
>winsock implies the move of `gethostname()' from `syscalls.cc' to
>`net.cc'.