Re: Another package ported
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 04:44:53PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote:
>
> I think that is reasonable. The was no POSIX standard specifying
> gethostname at the time the original decision was made.
Would this be in sysdeps/mach/hurd/sys/param.h? It seems what info libc
suggests.
On some systems, there is a symbol for the maximum possible host
name length: `MAXHOSTNAMELEN'. It is defined in `sys/param.h'.
But you can't count on this to exist, so it is cleaner to handle
failure and try again.
Thanks,
Marcus
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