why is hostname(1) output in UPPERCASE?

Eric De Mund

2003-01-10 07:24:31 UTC

Hello,

Why is hostname(1) output in UPPERCASE, when the native Windows 2000
hostname.exe outputs lowercase? Is this something I've unwittingly
enabled? Regardless, shouldn't RFC 1178's suggestion be followed? (It
states, "convention dictates that computer names appear all lowercase.")
Or is this a sh-utils rather than a cygwin bug?

Here's my current output:

***@COWBERRY ~
$ hostname
COWBERRY

***@COWBERRY ~
$ /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/hostname
cowberry

***@COWBERRY ~
$

This is in a brand new and complete 2003.01.09 download and install of
cygwin on a Windows 2000 Professional SP2 machine (under both bash(1)
and zsh(1)). See the output of "cygcheck --sysinfo", below, if
necessary.

Many thanks,
Eric

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Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics
Current System Time: Thu Jan 09 23:07:03 2003

Windows 2000 Professional Ver 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 2

Path: C:\pkg\cygwin\usr\local\bin
C:\pkg\cygwin\bin
C:\pkg\cygwin\bin
c:\WINNT\system32
c:\WINNT
c:\WINNT\System32\Wbem
C:\pkg\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin

SysDir: C:\WINNT\System32
WinDir: C:\WINNT

HOME = `c:\home\ead'
MAKE_MODE = `unix'
PWD = `/cygdrive/c/home/ead'
USER = `ead'

Use `-r' to scan registry

a: fd N/A N/A
c: hd NTFS 19085Mb 50% CP CS UN PA FC
d: hd N/A N/A
e: cd N/A N/A
f: cd N/A N/A

C:\pkg\cygwin / system binmode
C:\pkg\cygwin/bin /usr/bin system binmode
C:\pkg\cygwin/lib /usr/lib system binmode
C:\pkg\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts system binmode
. /cygdrive user binmode,cygdrive

Found: C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\bash.exe
Found: C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cat.exe
Found: C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cpp.exe
Found: C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\find.exe
Found: C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\gcc.exe
Found: C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\gdb.exe
Found: C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\ld.exe
Found: C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\ls.exe
Found: C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\make.exe
Found: C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\sh.exe

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Cygwin DLL version info:
DLL version: 1.3.18
DLL epoch: 19
DLL bad signal mask: 19005
DLL old termios: 5
DLL malloc env: 28
API major: 0
API minor: 69
Shared data: 3
DLL identifier: cygwin1
Mount registry: 2
Cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions
Cygwin registry name: Cygwin
Program options name: Program Options
Cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2
Cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags
Cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix
Cygdrive default prefix:
Build date: Wed Dec 25 15:37:50 EST 2002
Shared id: cygwin1S3

41k 2002/05/14 C:\pkg\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\cygPropList-0.dll

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