From: Garrett D'Amore (garrett@sba70.berkeley.edu)
Date: 04/22/93


From: garrett@sba70.berkeley.edu (Garrett D'Amore)
Subject: Re: [Q - HELP] mini-inews headaches
Date: 23 Apr 1993 01:07:20 GMT


Well... It appears that I have fixed the posting problem. (If you
are seeing this then it has been successfully posted from my linux
box. :)

The problem was a call to "gethostname" being made by uname.c in the
inews directory. I'm not exactly sure what was going on, but I believe
that the calls to gethostname and gethostbyname were circular in
nature, causing infinite recursion on my system. This was a BAD (tm)
THING.

The solution: I commented out the calls to both gethost's and replaced
them with "strcpy (a_string,"my_unqualified_host_name")"

Is this problem a bug in the libraries? Is it solved by using the
versions of the stuff in the /usr/include/bsd directory? Ideas?

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