On Sat Sep 8 23:02:25 EDT 2012, charles.fors...@gmail.com wrote: > No, I didn't explain it well. NETPATHLEN isn't named in the manual > pages, so ndb/dns doesn't use it. On the other hand, dial does, but > because it's ...LEN, it's an easy mistake to think of it as the length > of a string, which wouldn't include the terminating zero byte, instead > of the length of the underlying array.
indeed, a fair number of recent dns issues have been this sort of confusion. there is something in ndb/dns (at least for me) that induces confusion. - erik
