Roland Mainz wrote: > Hi! > > ---- > > Does anyone know who owns (or wrote) > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/security/library/long_usernames/
I wrote it. > ? AFAIK it may be nice to correct the part which says the limit is 8 > _characters_ - currently the limit is 8 _bytes_ (which leads to the > upcoming project proposal for a project to allow users to use multibyte > characters for user names (as result the limit needs to be increased to > at least 32 bytes to store at least six multibyte characters (e.g. > (32-1) / MB_LEN_MAX), however in real-world scenarious more multibyte > characters will fit into 32 bytes since not all characters consume > |MB_LEN_MAX| bytes)) and utmpx stores up to 32 bytes. Fixed. -- Darren J Moffat
