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From: Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl>
To: Lukasz Jaroszewski <sigtrm@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: utmp.h: UT_HOSTSIZE
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On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 03:11:35PM +0200, Lukasz Jaroszewski wrote:
> just by curiosity, why  #define UT_HOSTSIZE  is 16, not 256, like in
> OtherBSDs and some unix-like-like OSes? :)

Probably historical reasons. It's very much possible to change it
though.  We've defined it to 64 since FreeBSD 2.05 and never really had
any trouble.

Marc