[RFC] Add getHostname convenience function to kdelibs? (was: Re: [PATCH] Make the default sending domain configurable)

[Malte Starostik]

Am Saturday 20 April 2002 14:35 schrieb Thiago Macieira:
> Ingo Klöcker wrote
>
> >QCString <classname>::getHostname( bool fallback_to_localhost )
> >{
> >  char str[256];
> >  if ( !gethostname( str, 255 ) )
> >    // str is not guaranteed to be NUL-terminated if it has full length
> >    str[255] = 0;
> >  else
> >    str[0] = 0;
> >
> >  if( !*str && fallback_to_localhost )
> >    return QCString( "localhost" );
> >  else
> >    return QCString( str );
> >}
>
> For lack of better place, I'll add that as a static function to
> KExtendedSocket, without the bool argument.
What about instead of a bool argument something like this:
enum HostNameType { FQDN = 0, Short = 1, FallbackToLocalhost = 2 }; and have a 
default of FQDN? Ehm, and maybe a better naming for Fallback... :)
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Malte Starostik
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