Path: csiph.com!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: Greg Wooledge Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix \H: Use getaddrinfo to get full hostname Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 11:32:06 -0400 Lines: 35 Approved: bug-bash@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20190724135835.110473-1-whissi@gentoo.org> <454afb04-c18a-1b82-d869-34539c194b3d@case.edu> <20190724144629.GL1218@eeg.ccf.org> <571d32dc-3ad0-3c00-5d9b-82ace9c041ff@gentoo.org> <20190724153206.GM1218@eeg.ccf.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1563982342 1652 209.51.188.17 (24 Jul 2019 15:32:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu Cc: bug-bash@gnu.org To: Thomas Deutschmann Envelope-to: bug-bash@gnu.org Mail-Followup-To: Thomas Deutschmann , bug-bash@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <571d32dc-3ad0-3c00-5d9b-82ace9c041ff@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 139.137.100.1 X-BeenThere: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-Mailman-Original-Message-ID: <20190724153206.GM1218@eeg.ccf.org> X-Mailman-Original-References: <20190724135835.110473-1-whissi@gentoo.org> <454afb04-c18a-1b82-d869-34539c194b3d@case.edu> <20190724144629.GL1218@eeg.ccf.org> <571d32dc-3ad0-3c00-5d9b-82ace9c041ff@gentoo.org> Xref: csiph.com gnu.bash.bug:15230 On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 05:23:27PM +0200, Thomas Deutschmann wrote: > On 2019-07-24 16:46, Greg Wooledge wrote: > >> I hope you are not talking about putting FQDN into a file which is > >> expecting hostname only... > > > > Yes, many people do precisely that. They configure their systems > > so the "hostname" command returns an FQDN, as I showed above. (Not > > my design, not my choice.) > > I consider this as misconfiguration. :( > > I can't believe that we somehow encourage people to either do something > wrong (put FQDN where just non-FQDN is expected and bypass DNS > mechanism) or use $(hostname -f) in PS1 when they want FQDN. Your perspective is too limited. Linux-based systems are very popular, but they're not the entire Unix world. # hostname -f # hostname -f # hostname minea.eeg.ccf.org # Personally, I don't like hostname returning a FQDN, but many other people *do*. It's common. When I work on a system that's set that way, I leave it set that way. It's so common that bash has two different PS1 escape sequences to handle it. Has had them for decades, as far as I know. There is nothing "wrong" about this configuration. I don't like it, and you clearly don't like it, but our opinions only matter to us.