Jan Engelhardt <[email protected]> writes:
>>> It is written (on so-called compatible machines like my Sun) as:
>>>
>>> #define MAXHOSTNAMELEN _POSIX_HOST_NAME_MAX
>>>
>>> Then in limits.h, I see:
>>>
>>> #define _POSIX_HOST_NAME_MAX 64
>>
>>That's wrong. The value must be 255, at least for the current spec.
>>You really should verify your statements before making them public. The
>>POSIX spec is available in HTML for for viewing for free from the
>>OpenGroup. What a specific implementation does is not authoritative.
>>
>
> Let's all be happy with it that some systens have the maximum hostname length
> at 64 or 255... thay way, applications do not tend to depend on it.
> (Cf. Linux and the 100->1000 Hz change which _did_ turn up something.)
For all of the kibitzers please reread Rolands original post, where he
included the urls of the appropriate pieces of the Posix spec.
Eric
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