Re: [PATCH v2] send-email: try to get fqdn by running hostname --fqdn on Linux and macOS

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: May 12, 2025, 20:15 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq1pstsi02.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cQCpWhJoouuzZu9HPy7Fj-T5RcNnAqryxQ=ATn37Os49Q@mail.gmail.com>

Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:

> The problem is not restricted only to macOS (and Alpine), but more
> generally to all BSD-lineage `hostname` which does not understand
> --fqdn but does understand -f.

True, but the proposed patch limits itself to

      $^O eq 'linux' || $^O eq 'darwin'

for unfathomable reason, so BSD's are safe already ;-)

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