On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 04:38:35PM +0100, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> Since we need to chop the hostname for windows, lets warn the app
> developers about this in the API documentation.
Do we want to make the limitation programmatically queriable? Silently
truncating the hostname in some cases feels a bit unnice.
ACK to the doc change.
Christophe
> ---
> osinfo/osinfo_install_config.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/osinfo/osinfo_install_config.c b/osinfo/osinfo_install_config.c
> index de4ee42..c7d41d0 100644
> --- a/osinfo/osinfo_install_config.c
> +++ b/osinfo/osinfo_install_config.c
> @@ -343,6 +343,20 @@ const gchar *osinfo_install_config_get_reg_product_key(OsinfoInstallConfig *conf
> OSINFO_INSTALL_CONFIG_PROP_REG_PRODUCTKEY);
> }
>
> +/**
> + * osinfo_install_config_set_hostname:
> + * @config: the install config
> + * @hostname: the desired hostname
> + *
> + * Sets the #OSINFO_INSTALL_CONFIG_PROP_HOSTNAME parameter.
> + *
> + * Note that some operating systems have restrictions on maximum number of
> + * characters in hostname (or its equivalent) so the actual hostname set might
> + * be different from the value you specified here. For example if you specify
> + * 'my-not-so-long-hostname' as hostname for Microsoft Windows, the actual
> + * hostname will be 'my-not-so-long-' since Microsoft Window does not allow more
> + * than 15 characters in hostnames.
> + */
> void osinfo_install_config_set_hostname(OsinfoInstallConfig *config,
> const gchar *hostname)
> {
> --
> 1.9.0
>
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