Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [... and the value for MAXHOSTNAMELEN iiis ...]
> Nevermind, the standard is a moving target. Sorry. What I quoted was from > draft 5, and I now checked draft 6, and it does not refer to a single > constant "255" anymore. Which standard are you talking about, now, POSIX? SUSv2 says the limit is 255 in <URL:http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xns/gethostname.html> Instead, it refers to HOST_NAME_MAX, which has > the minimum acceptable value 255, but may be unspecified. So, the > situation will be just as with PATH_MAX, you can even get the value > with sysconf and _SC_HOST_NAME_MAX. FWIW, SUSv2 also has no way to query a max path via sysconf. -- Robbe
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