Date: Sat, 20 Sep 97 17:43:53 -0700 From: "Studded" <Studded@dal.net> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: >8 char usernames going into 2.2.5? Message-ID: <199709210044.RAA18858@mail.san.rr.com>
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On Sat, 20 Sep 1997 06:04:44 -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >Here, enjoy. :-) Errr.. ok, but can I ask some questions first? :) >Index: sys/sys/param.h >========================================================= >RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/sys/param.h,v >-#define MAXLOGNAME 12 /* max login name length */ >+#define MAXLOGNAME 17 /* max login name length */ >Index: include/utmp.h >========================================================= >RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/include/utmp.h,v >-#define UT_NAMESIZE 8 /* see MAXLOGNAME in <sys/param.h> */ >+#define UT_NAMESIZE 16 /* see MAXLOGNAME in <sys/param.h> */ Ok, why is there a discrepancy here? If you told me that the change was easy to make, and all I had to do was change the numbers in those two files, the first thing I'd do is ask myself why they were already different, then I'd make them both 16. Obviously I'd be wrong, but can someone explain to a non-programmer why I want the value in param.h to be higher than the one in utmp.h? Thanks, Doug Do thou amend thy face, and I'll amend my life. -Shakespeare, "Henry V"
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