[1476] in Moira
Re: stella: call canonicalize_hostname() when renaming a host
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Wed Mar 22 17:00:13 2000
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From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@mit.edu>
cc: moiradev@mit.edu, mhbraun@mit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 22 Mar 2000 15:40:19 EST."
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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 16:59:49 -0500
> This patch prevents you from screwing yourself if you quote the
> argument to -R when using stella.
Since it really confused me... Garry noted in a personal zephyr
conversation, that if you pass a quoted host name in (and you get the
quotes past the shell) it won't canonicalize the name. The problem
really was that we were never canonicalizing the name even if it
wasn't quoted.
yay to the patch.
Jonathon
