Ok. I didn't go digging for all the details, just grepped in kernel/*.c.
(I don't have the time to deal with 2.2 at work, and at home I need to
figure out how to con Red Hat's installer into upgrading via FTP at 28.8
through a masquerading router. [Switching distros is not an option. I
usually end up supporting CMU's Red Hat installations by experimenting with
mine.]) I saw little usage and concluded erroneously that it was there for
"system self-description" purposes.
| The kernel doesn't shouldn't and won't. Its bizarre enough that sys5 stuck
| any domain info in the kernel..
+--->8
sys5's always been good for bizarre networking. Remember RFS?
So, upshot is that RH still has it right, but we're in for another dose of
the bad old days when people were convinced that "domainname" meant DNS.
Plus ca change.... Oy.
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carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering KF8NH
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