* [PATCH] gethostname.2: wfix
@ 2019-08-26 11:11 Jakub Wilk
2019-08-26 21:02 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
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From: Jakub Wilk @ 2019-08-26 11:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Michael Kerrisk; +Cc: linux-man
Signed-off-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
---
man2/gethostname.2 | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/man2/gethostname.2 b/man2/gethostname.2
index 4659337cc..5d6c20b0b 100644
--- a/man2/gethostname.2
+++ b/man2/gethostname.2
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ _BSD_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE\ >=\ 500
.ad
.SH DESCRIPTION
These system calls are used to access or to change the hostname of the
-current processor.
+current machine.
.PP
.BR sethostname ()
sets the hostname to the value given in the character array
--
2.23.0
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* Re: [PATCH] gethostname.2: wfix
2019-08-26 11:11 [PATCH] gethostname.2: wfix Jakub Wilk
@ 2019-08-26 21:02 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
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From: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) @ 2019-08-26 21:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jakub Wilk; +Cc: mtk.manpages, linux-man
Hello Jakub
On 8/26/19 1:11 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
> ---
> man2/gethostname.2 | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/man2/gethostname.2 b/man2/gethostname.2
> index 4659337cc..5d6c20b0b 100644
> --- a/man2/gethostname.2
> +++ b/man2/gethostname.2
> @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ _BSD_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE\ >=\ 500
> .ad
> .SH DESCRIPTION
> These system calls are used to access or to change the hostname of the
> -current processor.
> +current machine.
> .PP
> .BR sethostname ()
> sets the hostname to the value given in the character array
Instead, I applied the patch below.
Thanks,
Michael
diff --git a/man2/gethostname.2 b/man2/gethostname.2
index 4659337cc..a07d06fa5 100644
--- a/man2/gethostname.2
+++ b/man2/gethostname.2
@@ -67,8 +67,9 @@ _BSD_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE\ >=\ 500
.PD
.ad
.SH DESCRIPTION
-These system calls are used to access or to change the hostname of the
-current processor.
+These system calls are used to access or to change the system hostname.
+More precisely, they operate on the hostname associated with the calling
+process's UTS namespace.
.PP
.BR sethostname ()
sets the hostname to the value given in the character array
@@ -184,4 +185,5 @@ set to
.BR hostname (1),
.BR getdomainname (2),
.BR setdomainname (2),
-.BR uname (2)
+.BR uname (2),
+.BR uts_namespaces (7)
--
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
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