On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 10:33:06AM -0500, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: > Much like comparing the hostname to pathnames, this is an > apples-to-oranges comparison. Besides, since the system can define > HOST_NAME_MAX to be any value larger than _POSIX_HOST_NAME_MAX, there > is no arbitrary limit. As has been discussed, this is the reason the > constant was introduced (rather than a hard limit of 255).
Would you be happy if we define it to 2^32-1 on 32 bit systems? Because that would perhaps represent our limit best. The reason we don't do it is that we know what programs use this value for, and that there is a better way for applications to detect that there is really no limit. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
