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Authored by trasz on Sep 30 2020, 11:33 AM.
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Don't ignore return value from gethostname(3). It probably
cannot happen, but it silences down Coverity.

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trasz added a reviewer: mav.
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I have feeling it is too aggressive to exit with error here, but since it should not really happen -- OK, will count it as an assertion. May be just assert then?

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Sep 30 2020, 1:09 PM
In D26606#592597, @mav wrote:

I have feeling it is too aggressive to exit with error here, but since it should not really happen -- OK, will count it as an assertion. May be just assert then?

Not sure how Coverity deals with asserts. Besides, I kind of like the current version.