On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 05:07:54PM +0100, Darren J Moffat wrote: > I don't see anywhere on limits.h(3HEAD) that says we won't change > the value of LOGNAME_MAX it is the name that would be the Committed > interface not the value of it. > > LOGNAME_MAX is listed in the "Other Invariant Values" section. They > way I understand this is that it won't vary between compile time and > run time on this operating system, not that it won't ever change > between releases. > > Code compiled on Solaris 10 or earlier or existing builds of > OpenSolaris won't magically be broken they will behave the same way > the always do. Code compiled on future releases/builds isn't > guaranteed to work on older releases/builds anyway.
Customers who have old binaries that depend on LOGNAME_MAX being == 9 can simply restrict themselves to 8- byte usernames. Those binaries will have been observed to break long ago too, which means there must not be very many such apps around. Incidentally and FWIW, I don't agree that this case is not fasttrack fodder. And I agree that an opinion would do absolutely nothing. Nico -- _______________________________________________ opensolaris-arc mailing list opensolaris-arc@opensolaris.org
