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Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 17:51:02 +0000
From: Sven Vermeulen <swift@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: /etc/hostname on gentoo
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On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 01:28:50PM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 08/22/2016 11:58 AM, William Hubbs wrote:
> > All,
> > 
> > it looks like app-emulation/docker expects /etc/hostname to exist.
> > 
> 
> Isn't there some kind of portable operating system standard that says
> how to do these things?

Yes, wouldn't the Docker project be happy to take on a patch that uses
gethostname() or so?

Wkr,
	Sven Vermeulen