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Date: 21 Jul 93 15:39:37 GMT
From: eachus@mitre-bedford.arpa  (Robert I. Eachus)
Subject: Re: SunAda question
Message-ID: <EACHUS.93Jul21103937@spectre.mitre.org>
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In article <9307201338.aa20178@Paris.ics.uci.edu> kanderso@mabillon.ICS.UCI.EDU
 (Kenneth Anderson) writes:
     ...
 >    function gethostname(name: address; namelen: integer)
		   return status_code;

 >  As defined this function seems very useless...

 >  1. Anyone know why such a useless function would be included in
 >  this package?

   To get the host name?

 >  2. What is a good portable way of finding out the name of the machine
 >  your program is running on?

     You could try calling gethostname with name containing the
address of the first byte of a string, and namelen its length.  On
return look for a null byte to indicate the end of the hostname...

     Of course you might want to write a more Ada like wrapper for
this call if you plan to use it often.

--

					Robert I. Eachus

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