On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 7:42 AM, Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On 08/24/2016 07:37 AM, Daniel Campbell wrote: >> >> I imagine _someone_ out there wants it, otherwise we wouldn't be >> discussing it. > > The thread started out proposing it as a solution to a docker problem > that, it turns out, isn't a problem. Why are we still trying to fixing > something that isn't broken? Maybe I'm losing it, but nowhere in the > whole thread has anyone given a single reason why this might be useful. >
++ The need for /etc/hostname isn't really a container issue either in general. It isn't like containers need that file any more than anything else. The original proposed issue wouldn't be unlike somebody 20 years ago saying that they need their system with an nfs root filesystem to know the hostname of the nfs server. There are certainly ways to accomplish this by having the server stick a file somewhere, but it is a bit orthogonal to whether the nfs server uses /etc/hostname to set its hostname. -- Rich
