Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watserv1!sunee!maxwell!gordon
From: gordon@maxwell.waterloo.edu (Gordon R. Strachan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: BUG: incorrect argument to gethostname(2) panics kernel
Message-ID: <1990Aug19.202351.14697@sunee.waterloo.edu>
Date: 19 Aug 90 20:23:51 GMT
References: <1990Aug15.223852.10037@cs.columbia.edu>
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In article <1990Aug15.223852.10037@cs.columbia.edu> ji@close.cs.columbia.edu (John "Heldenprogrammer" Ioannidis) writes:
>The gethostname(2) system call has the following syntax:
>	int gethostname(name, length)
>	char *name;
>	int length;
>Older implementations needed the length argument to be an int *, and
>the length paramenter was a value-result parameter. I compiled such a

I submitted a bug report on that one at the start of the summer.  About
three weeks ago I got a letter back saying that the bug would be fixed in
the next release of the O/S.

Gordon