[usocket-devel] What's the usage of USOCKET::GET-HOST-NAME in lispworks.lisp?

1 Feb 2008

      Hi,

I saw these definitions in lispworks.lisp:

#+win32
(fli:register-module "ws2_32")

(fli:define-foreign-function (get-host-name-internal  
"gethostname" :source)
       ((return-string (:reference-return (:ef-mb-string :limit 257)))
        (namelen :int))
       :lambda-list (&aux (namelen 256) return-string)
       :result-type :int
       #+win32 :module
       #+win32 "ws2_32")

(defun get-host-name ()
   (multiple-value-bind (retcode name)
       (get-host-name-internal)
     (when (= 0 retcode)
       name)))

What's the usage of GET-HOST-NAME? Can we use CL:MACHINE-INSTANCE  
instead? I think they have the same effect:

CL-USER 4 > (machine-instance)
"binghe-mac.local"

CL-USER 5 > (usocket::get-host-name)
"binghe-mac.local"

Thanks,

Chun TIAN (binghe)

[usocket-devel] What's the usage of USOCKET::GET-HOST-NAME in lispworks.lisp?

Chun Tian (binghe)