On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

Easiest might be to punt to hostname --fqdn, or an equivalent to its
algorithm - which appears to be fetch the hostname from uname, do a DNS
lookup on that, and a reverse DNS lookup on the result.

Hah. I'll just commit my patch, and for any setup where that doesn't work, 
people can set COMMIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL by hand.

		Linus