[Ecls-list] Minor change

[Geo Carncross]

On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll
<jjgarcia at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>  - MACHINE-TYPE, MACHINE-INSTANCE, SOFTWARE-VERSION and similar functions are
>    now compliant and output NIL when they cannot guess the right information.
>    In particular MACHINE-INSTANCE returns the host name if the environment
>    variable HOSTNAME is set (in Unix) and COMPUTERNAME if set (in Windows).
>
>  In a not so distant future, MACHINE-INSTANCE will use POSIX's
>  gethostname(). In the mean time, the current function will work in
>  most Unices, except for OS X, where it will return NIL because the
>  operating system does not export the environment variable HOSTNAME.
>  Tag: (CVS 2008-04-13 15:12)

uname(3) works on macosx. Of course, you can let $HOSTNAME override it
because it's useful.