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Date:      Fri, 6 Dec 1996 09:10:31 PST
From:      Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-include@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/include utmp.h 
Message-ID:  <96Dec6.091046pst.177711@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 05 Dec 96 11:06:14 PST." <9893.849812774@time.cdrom.com> 

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In message <9893.849812774@time.cdrom.com> you write:
>Simple questions:  Is there concensus for bumping UT_HOSTSIZE to the
>next increment?  32 or 64?  What about the other fields that Peter
>suggested?

I think that the host address would be extremely useful, so that there's
a uniform representation of the host address that a program can get to.
I don't think it should be a struct in_addr, though, since we don't want
to have to change again when IPv6 comes around, so perhaps it should be
an (ugh) 20-byte sockaddr.

A bigger UT_HOSTSIZE makes some sense, but given the host address field it's
not necessarily critical.

  Bill



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