Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 18:18:56 +0200 From: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> To: Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, Lukasz Jaroszewski <sigtrm@gmail.com> Subject: Re: utmp.h: UT_HOSTSIZE Message-ID: <20080506161856.GJ1181@hoeg.nl> In-Reply-To: <20080506145131.GA24882@zlo.nu> References: <aed2bfaf0805060611y23eaaae6le6f762bff1dab452@mail.gmail.com> <20080506145131.GA24882@zlo.nu>
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--L+vyn3np+Um+N09T Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl> wrote: > 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. When increasing it, we shouldn't forget to increase UT_LINESIZE to 16 as well. Using the UNIX 98 PTY naming, we can't go beyond pts/999, because it is eight bytes, including the null byte. --=20 Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> WWW: http://80386.nl/ --L+vyn3np+Um+N09T Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkgghPAACgkQ52SDGA2eCwUC2ACdFAAyEo2Kx3wJtMvQpkmZyFQD krsAnRSwn62fNQpxepsvxmucZs63f5BO =E+E1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --L+vyn3np+Um+N09T--
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