> My concern here is simple: is there a hidden rule along the lines
 > of MAXLINKNAMELEN must never be greater than LIFNAMSIZ?  If there
 > is, this should be stated somewhere.

I thought that went without saying -- things wouldn't work otherwise.
The values of these constants and the relationships between them are
not part of the documented interface -- the consumer can simply trust
that we have given them reasonable values so that things will work.

-- 
meem


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