Re: [pcp] qa/734 - hostname and pmstat

[Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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> Not sure what this one is aiming to test.

Its exercising a fix in pmGetContextHostName(3) - see commit 3f0595ab3 -
where context switching resulted in incorrect hostnames being reported.

> Since pmstat does its own truncation of the hostname this is doomed to
> fail on a long hostname.

Hmm, I guess either a custom qa program is needed (replacing pmstat use)
or the test needs to mirror the pmstat hostname truncation logic.

cheers.

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Nathan