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From: mike@unmvax.cs.unm.edu (Michael I. Bushnell)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: gethostent call in readline.c
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Date: 10 Jun 89 17:05:22 GMT
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Hostname completions are a good idea, but there is a problem.  With
the resolv library (which BSD uses by DEFAULT, thank god), there is no
gethostent function.  Even if it were implemented (perhaps doing a
depth-first search on the entire DNS), it would be far too slow when
hooked up to the internet with named.  Just too many hosts to page
through.

Has anyone else thought of this?

If not, I'll pound out an approprite set of #ifdef's...it doesn't seem
to be too complex.

Sigh.

(But I get to post the first bug to the newsgroup!)

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