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Date:      Fri, 19 Apr 1996 11:22:37 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Angelo Turetta <ATuretta@stylo.it>
Cc:        "'freebsd-questions'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: How can I use gethostname() in snake_saver ??
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960419112206.25922C@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <c=IT%a=_%p=stylo%l=STYLOSERVER960419183610BF006300@styloserver.stylo.it>

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On Fri, 19 Apr 1996, Angelo Turetta wrote:

> I'm learning unix programming, so I'm obviously missing some very basic
> information: please, be patient :-)

I'm not either, I'm just looking at the man page :-)

> 
> I've modified snake_saver.c to make it use the host name as its 'snake'
> message. The hack is really simple: in saver_load() I use gethostname(3)  to
> fill a static array that is later used by snake_saver() instead of the local
> array 'saves'.
> 
> When I try to install the screen saver using modload(8), I get:
> 
>   /usr/src/lkm/syscons/snake> modload -u -o /tmp/saver_mod -e saver_init -q
> /lkm/snake_saver_mod.o
>   /lkm/snake_saver_mod.o: Undefined symbol `_gethostname' referenced from
> text segment
>   modload: /usr/bin/ld: return code 1
> 
> Is it only some -lxxxx missing or am I pretending too much :-) ????

Did you #include <unistd.h>?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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