RE: [MiNT] kernel development

["Julian Reschke" <reschke@muenster.de>]

> From: owner-mint@fishpool.com [mailto:owner-mint@fishpool.com]On Behalf
> Of Guido Flohr
> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 1999 3:23 PM
> To: MiNT mailing list
> Subject: Re: [MiNT] kernel development
>
>...
>
> Right, but the base for Martin's idea is ok to me.  Why not make
> gethostname and sethostname kernel calls?  Sethostname should either be
> called by /etc/rc.net or - which I think makes more sense with MiNT - in
> mint.cnf. Whatever program sets the hostname could also update
> /etc/hostname for compatibility with old software.

Sounds good. But please do not invent more and more system calls for
cosmetic things. A new opcode for Ssystem () or something similar should be
just fine.