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Re: ssh success



   Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 19:05:04 -0500
   From: Neal H Walfield <neal@cs.uml.edu>

   > > openssh itself needed several kludges: I replaced MAXHOSTNAME in a
   > > couple of files with a "enough for everyone" value. Evil, but at the
   > > time I lacked the docs to do it right.
   > 
   > Well, this needs to be fixed with realloc() and a loop.

   How about alloca and asprintf?

There are portability issues with those.  alloca() isn't supported on
all systems (although it can be emulated), and asprintf is a GNU
extension.  Of course the Hurd and Linux support both, but the
upstream maintainer might not like it.

Mark



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