Re: [PATCH v2] alpha: Use the generic gethostname

* Magnus Lindholm:

> alpha was the only target implementing gethostname with the syscall
> rather than through uname. Its only behavioural difference was the errno
> for a too-small buffer: it reported EOVERFLOW where the generic
> implementation, gethostname(2) and misc/tst-gethostname expect
> ENAMETOOLONG, so alpha failed that test:
>
>   tst-gethostname.c:96: numeric comparison failure
>      left: 112 (0x70, EOVERFLOW); from: errno
>     right: 63 (0x3f); from: ENAMETOOLONG
>
> The file contains nothing but that function, so removing it lets the
> sysdeps search fall through to sysdeps/posix/gethostname.c, which
> produces the same buffer contents and the expected errno.
> misc/tst-gethostname passes on alpha with it.
>
> Suggested-by: Florian Weimer <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Magnus Lindholm <[email protected]>
> ---
> v1: https://inbox.sourceware.org/libc-alpha/[email protected]/
> v2: remove the file rather than change the errno, per review.
>
>  sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/gethostname.c | 44 ---------------------
>  1 file changed, 44 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/gethostname.c

Looks okay to me.

Reviewed-by: Florian Weimer <[email protected]>

Magnus, should I push this on your behalf?

Thanks,
Florian