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Re: SSH patch finished & third shot at PAM



On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 09:28:00PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 05:53:59PM +0100, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
>  
> > For the next couple of weeks I'll be lying low because I won't have almost any 
> > time for hurd related work. And in the mean time I leave you to ponder on this 
> > question: according to SUSv2 the maximum hostname length is 255, and there is 
> > no system dependent macro or runtime poll function like sysconf that modifies 
> > that value. So how should programs that use MAXHOSTNAMELEN be corrected for 
> > POSIX compliance?
> 
> You must have a different copy of susv2 than me, then:
> ulysses:/floppy/pam# find /var/www/susv2 -type f -exec grep -H MAXHOST {} \;
> ulysses:/floppy/pam#
> 
> Can you tell us in which section it is mentioned?

Just look in the page for gethostname(), xns/gethostname.html.

Igor



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