On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 17:23:23 -0700 (PDT) Paul Goyette <[email protected]> wrote:
> Should these be changed? Are there any adverse effects from having a > wmesg longer than 8 characters? It seems to me that the exporter of those use strncpy() (i.e. kern/init_sysctl.c) and that the structures use WMESGLEN and KI_WMESGLEN both defined as 8. So other than inadvertently truncated names it at least should not cause corruption, but I think that truncated names could also be problematic when trying to distinguish two strings starting with the same 8 characters (is that likely now)? Especially when the only thing that differs between two states is some suffix like "rd" and "rw"... After all, those are intended for humans :) -- Matt
