I think best way to do this get sample networking source code by Richard Stevens available on net and see how he has managed these porting issues. Regards Syed On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 17:28, vaidya sn wrote: > uname is not defined in BSD 4.3. > > Could you plz tell me where I can dig deeper for info on how these > functions work . > > gethostname > gethostbyname > uname > > thnx n regards > > vaidya > > > Dinil Divakaran wrote: > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I am using gethostname n gethostbyname in one of my application ... > >> to get the fully qualified hostname. > >> > >> i want to ensure that this will work in all distribution versions of > >> linux ... be it redhat, mandrake , fedora etc etc ... > >> > > > > You can use 'uname' sytem call. See man page of uname(2). This should > > help. > > - > > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > > - > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
