Re: [PATCH] New ORB_init option "ORBNetID=<string>"

Tor Lillqvist <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.orbit.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Ilguiz Latypov writes:
 > As far as I understand, [Tor] pointed out that there are inconsistencies 

 >   a) between the address of the non-loopback interface and the address 
 >      of the host name and

Not "the" non-loopback interface, *an* non-loopback interface. If the
ioctl that lists the interfaces had happened to return them in a
different order, *I* wouldn't have noticed the problem...

 > I am asking if it is possible to avoid these inconsistencies by
 > providing only the host's name to the clients.

Probably, that's what link_get_local_hostname() used to do
earlier. But presumably there was some problem with that, which
prompted Jules to try to fix it.

--tml
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