From: Daniel Berger <djberge@...>
Date: 2002-10-29T23:25:28+09:00
Subject: [ANN] Sys/Host 0.3.0

Hi all,

I've just released the latest version of Sys/Host, now available on the
RAA.

# Synopsis
require "sys/host"
include Sys

puts Host.hostname
puts Host.ip_addr            # single nic system
Host.ip_addr{ |ip| puts ip } # multi nic system

# Changelog

-  Reentrant (thread-safe) support added for ip_addr() method (for
Linux,
   FreeBSD and Solaris currently).

- The file layout changed so that each platform has its own source file.

  This was done because different platforms have different
implementations
  of gethostbyname_r(), if they have them at all.  Some platforms (e.g.
  FreeBSD) use a different function altogether.

- The file generic.c is used to create the source if the platform is not

  specifically supported (for thread safety), or if gethostbyname_r()
  isn't found.

- The FreeBSD implementation uses getipnodebyname() instead of
  gethostbyname(), if possible.  According to the man page, it's thread
  safe.

- Modifications to the extconf.rb file based on the above changes.

- Added a default value of 16 for INET_ADDRSTRLEN.

- Added a host.txt file (a text version of the docs).

Regards,

Dan