Re: @%$#$ can't start on RH 7.1

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: The call to getaddrinfo() in init_system_name is conditional upon: if (!strchr (hostname, '.')) On my system (RH6.2) the result is that getaddrinfo() isn't called when running XEmacs on a tty. Brief testing suggests that failure to canonicalise correctly doesn't seem to have any really negative consequences. E.g. (frame-device (make-frame-on-display ":0")) #<x-device on ":0.0" 0x23b5> (frame-device (make-frame-on-display "localhost:0")) #<x-device on ":0.0" 0x23b5> (frame-device (make-frame-on-display "127.0.0.1:0")) #<x-device on ":0.0" 0x23b5> (frame-device (make-frame-on-display "tcp/localhost:0")) #<x-device on "tcp/localhost:0.0" 0x11dd0> Even though this is wrong, I haven't found any user-level problems as a result. Actually, the fact that the canonicalisation code fails to handle the last case at least provides a way to force a connection to "localhost:0" (which isn't the same thing as ":0"). -- Glynn Clements <glynn.clements(a)virgin.net&gt;