xfce4-session warning about an unresolvable local hostname

[Guido Berhoerster]

* Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer at googlemail.com> [2011-07-24 20:06]:
> 
> On Jul 24, 2011, at 16:41 , Guido Berhoerster wrote:
> 
> > * Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer at googlemail.com> [2011-07-24 09:16]:
> >>> Can the check whether getaddrinfo() on the hostname returned by
> >>> gethostname() succeeds be removed from xfce4-session/xfsm-dns.c?
> >>> As I noted in another mail, "localhost" is of course still
> >>> resolvable.
> >> 
> >> IIRC that specific check was introduced to ensure that SM over
> >> TCP works. Can you check the contents of the SESSION_MANAGER
> >> envvar when logged in with TCP session management enabled?
> > 
> > It contains the (unresolvable) hostname, libICE (via libxtrans)
> > determines it through gethostname().
> > 
> > gber at linux-4kta:~> printenv SESSION_MANAGER
> > local/linux-4kta.site:@/tmp/.ICE-unix/4679,unix/linux-4kta.site:/tmp/.ICE-unix/4679,inet6/linux-4kta.site:35570,inet/linux-4kta.site:42074
> 
> Ah well, so the warning is right, session clients will not be
> able to resolve that name. This is not so much of a problem as
> long as the local or unix transports work, but it will fail as
> soon as the inet6 or inet transports are used.

True, but as long as only local transports are enabled the
check can be disabled, right?

-- 
Guido Berhoerster