"Randy.Dunlap" <[email protected]> writes:
> OK, here's my big comment/question. I want to see <nodename> increased to
> 256 bytes (per current POSIX), so each field of struct <variant>_utsname
> needs be copied individually (I think) instead of doing a single
> struct copy.
>
> I've been working on this for the past few weeks (among other
> things). Sorry about the timing.
> I could send patches for this against mainline in a few days,
> but I'll be glad to listen to how it would be easiest for all of us
> to handle.
>
> I'm probably a little over half done with my patches.
> They will end up adding a lib/utsname.c that has functions for:
> put_oldold_unmame() // to user
> put_old_uname() // to user
> put_new_uname() // to user
> put_posix_uname() // to user
Looking 256 at least makes sense to hold a dns fully qualified domain
name. So even if it isn't specified by posix is make sense.
Can we please make the structure we return to user space look something
like:
struct long_utsname {
char *sysname;
char *nodename;
char *release;
char *version;
char *machine;
char *domainname;
char buf[0];
}
int sys_long_uname(char *buf, size_t bufsz);
So we don't hard code the maximum length of these strings into the user
interface, and can just return more by increasing our buffer size.
Eric
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