----- Original Message ----- From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Barry Comcast" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 9:52 AM Subject: Re: tcpdump-3.8.3
> Why? Their code uses 64 and my Debian GNU/Linux box has > MAXHOSTNAMELEN defined as 64?? > > Because we don't have a limit to begin with, this is just a ugly way > of saying that we don't have one. But this is really not important, > what is the problem with just fixing it the proper way and use > xgethostname or whatever? > > I cringe everytime I see these stupid hacks that define MAX*... I agree. However, what is funny is that they aren't even using MAXHOSTNAMELEN for the buffer for gethostname() as usual so it's a weird situation anyway. Barry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
