On Mon, 13.06.11 19:02, Denys Vlasenko (dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 12:37 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote: > > 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. > > I just tried it. So far flames don't shoot out of my notebook. Wow, that's convincing proof. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
