[off-list ref] writes:
No worries. I only know this point because I was rather deeply in a related
code base back in 1994. I did not know that glibc varied from an old UNIX (I
think that's where the code was from) code base prior to this thread.
Learning is good and never a problem.
It is not surprising that you were doing gethostname in 1994, but it
is very surprising that you still remember such details ;-)