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Date:      Fri, 28 Jan 2000 16:09:34 -0500 (EST)
From:      Ray <ray@rjk191.rh.psu.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   two questions: makecontext, etc; password length
Message-ID:  <slrn8941ce.8bv.ray@rjk191.rh.psu.edu>

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Two questions for the group:
1) Is there a BSD equivalent of makecontext, getcontext,
swapcontext, and the like that Solaris has? These are system calls
that deal with contexts of user processes.

2) Why are passwords limited to 8 characters? Whether it be xdm,
login, or su, only the first 8 characters are processed, and the
rest of the text can be anything I want, or nothing at all. I was
under the impression that the maximum length of passwords was 25
characters.

-- 
Ray Kohler <rjk191@psu.edu>
	KING?->


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