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authorGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>2000-01-23 08:48:46 +0000
committerGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>2000-01-23 08:48:46 +0000
commit6bb694c13adc449f32ff24c71221152025ccae6c (patch)
tree436f56d32b9cdd603737522700ebef6336749492 /lib
parent4c6b0ea912393b78c22246724423fc4d6c34fadb (diff)
downloadperl-6bb694c13adc449f32ff24c71221152025ccae6c.tar.gz
prefer POSIX::uname() rather than syscalls, which require attempting
to load syscall.ph (from David Huggins-Daines <dhd@eradicator.org>) p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4851
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/Sys/Hostname.pm32
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Sys/Hostname.pm b/lib/Sys/Hostname.pm
index 4d93f91f9e..87d10520df 100644
--- a/lib/Sys/Hostname.pm
+++ b/lib/Sys/Hostname.pm
@@ -71,44 +71,44 @@ sub hostname {
}
else { # Unix
- # method 2 - syscall is preferred since it avoids tainting problems
+ # method 2 - use POSIX.pm, prefer the standard library to system calls
eval {
local $SIG{__DIE__};
- {
- package main;
- require "syscall.ph";
- }
+ require POSIX;
+ $host = (POSIX::uname())[1];
+ }
+ # method 3 - otherwise syscall is preferred since it avoids tainting problems
+ || eval {
+ local $SIG{__DIE__};
+ require "syscall.ph";
$host = "\0" x 65; ## preload scalar
- syscall(&main::SYS_gethostname, $host, 65) == 0;
+ syscall(&SYS_gethostname, $host, 65) == 0;
}
- # method 2a - syscall using systeminfo instead of gethostname
+ # method 3a - syscall using systeminfo instead of gethostname
# -- needed on systems like Solaris
|| eval {
local $SIG{__DIE__};
- {
- package main;
- require "sys/syscall.ph";
- require "sys/systeminfo.ph";
- }
+ require "sys/syscall.ph";
+ require "sys/systeminfo.ph";
$host = "\0" x 65; ## preload scalar
- syscall(&main::SYS_systeminfo, &main::SI_HOSTNAME, $host, 65) != -1;
+ syscall(&SYS_systeminfo, &SI_HOSTNAME, $host, 65) != -1;
}
- # method 3 - trusty old hostname command
+ # method 4 - trusty old hostname command
|| eval {
local $SIG{__DIE__};
local $SIG{CHLD};
$host = `(hostname) 2>/dev/null`; # bsdish
}
- # method 4 - sysV uname command (may truncate)
+ # method 5 - sysV uname command (may truncate)
|| eval {
local $SIG{__DIE__};
$host = `uname -n 2>/dev/null`; ## sysVish
}
- # method 5 - Apollo pre-SR10
+ # method 6 - Apollo pre-SR10
|| eval {
local $SIG{__DIE__};
($host,$a,$b,$c,$d)=split(/[:\. ]/,`/com/host`,6);