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Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 19:33:12 +0100
From: Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Updated gethostname()
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Hello.

> This alone is enough for us to not include it in libc.  We're already
> trying to get *rid* of code like that in libc; I don't think we should
> be adding more.

OK, fair enough. If people really want a TCP/IP network-enabled version,
then they could use libsocket instead. I was just carrying out Eli's
suggestion.