On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 18:01 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > > We invoke sethostname() from inside systemd since that is one of the > > most trivial system calls known to men and doing this with a > separate > > binary is just absurd. This way we also can ensure that the hostname > is > > always initialised which is very useful for early boot logging and > other > > stuff. On systemd you get the guarantee that the hostname is always > set > > up if you run in userspace, > > You can't possibly know what kind of (possibly dynamic) hostname > admin might want to assign to his machine. The static hostname > may be as useless as default "(none)" which is set by kernel. > Anyway, logging with default hostname is not a catastrophe. > > Why do you set up stuff no one asked you to? Changing a machine hostname at random times is just asking for trouble. What's the problem of having a specific hostname set up at boot time ? Simo. -- Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
