The reason that LOGNAME_MAX was stuck at 8 in <limits.h> for so long is that the System V ABIs and the SCDs require that value.
Solaris 10 has been breaking ABI requirements around the edges for a few years. Since this is case is departing from more ABI requirements, should it have a major release binding? Or, should an opinion be written for this case acknowledging that the ARC knows that this case violates the ABIs and that the decision to do so is intentional (without setting precedent to otherwise ignore the ABI)? Once upon a time, there was a gang of four working on a definition of what would be the limits of the changes going into "Solaris next", whether it would be classified as a major or minor release, and what would constitute the basis for determining whether or not an implementation of OpenSolaris would be able to use the Solaris trademark. Was a report ever produced by the gang? (I know that at least half of the gang no longer works for Sun/Oracle.) Is there any current plan to define any type of new Solaris ABI? - Don _______________________________________________ opensolaris-arc mailing list [email protected]
