linux-kernel - Re: Modern 2.6 kernels - Notification for changing hostname from proc/sys/kernel/hostname ?

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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.1.10.0805211137160.15136@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
Date:	Wed, 21 May 2008 11:38:01 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>
To:	Shawn Starr <shawn.starr@...ers.com>
cc:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Modern 2.6 kernels - Notification for changing hostname from
 proc/sys/kernel/hostname ?

On Monday 2008-05-19 22:05, Shawn Starr wrote:
>>
>> Why does it want to know if and when hostname changes?
>>
>Well, It's for keeping track of the X session, if the hostname changes things 
>go bad.

Then these should be resolved. Sometimes, even setting just the time
with ntpdate makes X go blank for a few seconds, or even exit.

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