[LTP] [PATCH v3] gethostname02: Accept EOVERFLOW on alpha

[Cyril Hrubis]

Hi!
> On alpha glibc's gethostname() directly calls the kernel
> syscall and sets errno to EOVERFLOW when the buffer is
> too small, because the kernel truncates silently and the
> string is not null terminated.
> 
> On the other hand, the generic posix implementation used
> on x86_64 sets ENAMETOOLONG in this case.
> 
> Fix this by accepting both errnos.

Looking at man gethostname it's not supposed to return EOVERFLOW. I'm
not sure that we want to work around this in the tests.


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Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz