Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 17:17:41 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Michael Mauch <michael DOT mauch AT gmx DOT de>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: How should gethostname() work?
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On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Michael Mauch wrote:

> But the name delivered by the above function is blank padded, so
> gethostname() will give "MY_HOST         " instead of "MY_HOST".

Thanks for your report.

This bug is already corrected in the DJGPP development sources.  DJGPP
v2.02 will come with this bug fixed.  I believe the patched libc on Tom
Demmer's site has this bug corrected also.