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Re: gethostname max len
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Kevin Ryde |
Subject: |
Re: gethostname max len |
Date: |
Mon, 22 Mar 2004 11:02:55 +1000 |
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Wolfgang Jaehrling <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Which is what Guile probably also should do, otherwise it won't work
> correctly on the GNU system, which has no limit on the length of host
> names;
Oh, is that how the -1 is to be understood? Nosing around the glibc
sources it looked only like it didn't have an implementation for
HOST_NAME_MAX yet.
> the current code that checks for ENAMETOOLONG looks quite
> GNU/Linux-specific.
Yep. (I'm not proposing to change that, only to get a better first
size for the buffer.)