> --- "Jacques A. Vidrine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Regardless, the next version of POSIX specifies HOST_NAME_MAX. We > > should probably be using HOST_NAME_MAX instead of MAXHOSTNAMELEN > > in the Heimdal sources, or at least do something such as Note that no system is required to define HOST_NAME_MAX, specifically, if there is no maximum. The situation is just like that for PATH_NAME_MAX. You are supposed to check for a compile-time constant, which might not be defined. You can check for a run-time constant with sysconf, and on the Hurd it will return -1, indicating the absence of any limit. If you want the program to be Posix compliant, then you cannot assume that HOST_NAME_MAX is always defined. The correct thing to do is to use the referenced xgethostname, which calls gethostname in a loop in order to get a big enough buffer. Thomas _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
