Re: [bug-inetutils] Bug in inetutils

[Simon Josefsson]

Mats Erik Andersson <address@hidden> writes:

> Some versions of Solaris (10 and 8 are claimed) , together with some AIX (7.1 
> and 5.1)
> as well as OSF/1 5.1, do not declare sethostname(3c) as expected in 
> <unistd.h>,
>  which all other unices do, including OpenSolaris. This fact was attended to 
> recently
> within Gnulib, viz. beginning of December 2011. This issue should be solvable 
> using
> the new Gnulib module "sethostname", which we have to examine.
>
> Thank you for pushing on this matter. Hopefully this will convince my colleges
> that it would be useful to locate a machine with Solaris 10 for our 
> developmental
> access.

The opencsw.org guys provide Solaris 8/9/10 machines for testing.  The
biggest problem is probably to find human time to test InetUtils on
those platforms.

/Simon