From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
To: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" <linux-os@analogic.com>
Cc: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>,
"Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, akpm <akpm@osdl.org>,
serue@us.ibm.com, sam@vilain.net, clg@fr.ibm.com, dev@sw.ru
Subject: Re: [PATCH] POSIX-hostname up to 255 characters
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 11:55:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44774F0B.8010805@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0605261430370.8339@chaos.analogic.com>
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linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
> It is written (on so-called compatible machines like my Sun) as:
>
> #define MAXHOSTNAMELEN _POSIX_HOST_NAME_MAX
>
> Then in limits.h, I see:
>
> #define _POSIX_HOST_NAME_MAX 64
That's wrong. The value must be 255, at least for the current spec.
You really should verify your statements before making them public. The
POSIX spec is available in HTML for for viewing for free from the
OpenGroup. What a specific implementation does is not authoritative.
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➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-26 18:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-26 3:45 Randy.Dunlap
2006-05-26 9:14 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-05-26 14:42 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2006-05-26 17:28 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-05-26 18:01 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2006-05-26 18:15 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-05-26 18:28 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-05-26 18:35 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-05-26 18:55 ` Ulrich Drepper [this message]
2006-05-26 19:12 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-05-26 21:31 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-05-27 1:39 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-05-27 7:36 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-05-27 13:54 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-05-28 18:32 ` Randy.Dunlap
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