Question: socket.gethostname() functionality for this crate?

[spamwax]

I was just wondering if it makes sense to add a similar functionality to that of python's socket module to this crate so the hostname (FQDN or not) of the machine (for the local end of) socket is returned? or this is something beyond/unrelated to this crate?

[alexcrichton]

Seems reasonable to me to add!

[spamwax]

Thanks
I'd like to tackle this.

any hints/directions on design of the API is appreciated. For example, should we support gethostnmame() for all possible combination of Domain, Type and Protocol that socket2 offers or just focus on some?
(ex: does adgram type unix-domain socket need to have access to gethostname())

[Thomasdezeeuw]

@spamwax do you still need this? According to the manual glibc actually uses uname(2), so something like Nix might be a better crates for this, they already have a wrapper function: https://docs.rs/nix/0.19.1/nix/sys/utsname/fn.uname.html.

[spamwax]

ok, thanks.