[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] [PATCH] uts: Make default hostname configurable, rather than always using "(none)"

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 7:38 AM, Josh Triplett <josh at joshtriplett.org> wrote:
>
> The "hostname" tool falls back to setting the hostname to "localhost" if
> /etc/hostname does not exist.  Distribution init scripts have the same
> fallback.  However, if userspace never calls sethostname, such as when
> booting with init=/bin/sh, or otherwise booting a minimal system without
> the usual init scripts, the default hostname of "(none)" remains,
> unhelpfully appearing in various places such as prompts
> ("root@(none):~#") and logs.  Furthermore, "(none)" doesn't typically
> resolve to anything useful.

Ok, I'm fine with this. So Ack as far as I'm concerned.

Does this make most sense through the networking tree, or what?

              Linus