On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 07:05:04PM -0500, Neal H Walfield wrote: > > > openssh itself needed several kludges: I replaced MAXHOSTNAME in a > > > couple of files with a "enough for everyone" value. Evil, but at the > > > time I lacked the docs to do it right. > > > > Well, this needs to be fixed with realloc() and a loop. > > How about alloca and asprintf?
Well, alloca takes the memory from the stack frame. When this is okay I don't know. I don't know how huge the stack is on various architectures, and if this imposes a serious limit. asprintf is not defined by any standard I know of (read: POSIX), so it imposes compatibility issues across unices. BSD and glibc have it. 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
