On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 10:55:49PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > 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?
I am talking about the POSIX draft as currently developed by the Austin Common Standards Revision Group (www.opengroup.org/austin) It's not a standard yet, but it seems it will replace the various UNIX standards (1003.1/96, 1003.2/92 and SUS). > SUSv2 says the limit is 255 in > <URL:http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xns/gethostname.html> It seems this was grandfathered in draft 5, and fixed in draft 6. Thanks, Marcus
