In article <20140116201146.6bf941df@zelz27>, Matthias Drochner <m.droch...@fz-juelich.de> wrote: >-=-=-=-=-=- > > >Hi - >just found that the hosts table distributed in my company has an entry >with ~40 aliases. There is a maximum of MAXALIASES=35 in NetBSD, and >the effect is that not just this line is ignored but also the rest >of the hosts file. This looks unreasonable. >Here is a patch which fixes this for me - the offending line is >ignored but the following lines are read. >One could also just ignore the bad line in gethostent_r(), or even >use the first MAXALIASES aliases and only ignore the aliases which >don't fit. >What do you think?
I removed the limit. christos