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Date:      Wed, 7 Mar 2001 18:31:25 +0200
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Max Khon <fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG, Garrett Wollman <wollman@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: MAXHOSTNAMELEN
Message-ID:  <20010307183125.A3227@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010307182453.D36537@sunbay.com>; from ru@FreeBSD.org on Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 06:24:53PM %2B0200
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103072153170.43511-100000@iclub.nsu.ru> <20010307182453.D36537@sunbay.com>

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On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 06:24:53PM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
[...]
> 
> And given that MAXHOSTNAMELEN is defined as 256, it would appear that
> passing MAXHOSTNAMELEN would be enough.  But we are not currently
> POSIX-compatible; kern_mib.c defines ``char hostname[MAXHOSTNAMELEN]''
> thus allowing host names of up to 256 bytes, so (in FreeBSD), you
> should pass MAXHOSTNAMELEN+1.
> 
> This could be fixed by redefining MAXHOSTNAMELEN to 255.  Garrett?
> 
Grr, I meant to say that you should always pass MAXHOSTNAMELEN+1, but
the current value of MAXHOSTNAMELEN is not POSIX-compatible.


Cheers,
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