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From: Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl>
Subject: Re: kern/185077: Sync L_cuserid with MAXLOGNAME
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The following reply was made to PR kern/185077; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl>
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Subject: Re: kern/185077: Sync L_cuserid with MAXLOGNAME
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2013 22:50:44 +0100

 In PR kern/185077, you wrote:
 > L_cuserid must match MAXLOGNAME. When MAXLOGNAME was bumped to 33 in
 > <sys/param.h>, L_cuserid in <stdio.h> was forgotten.
 
 > Fix: Bump L_cuserid to 33.
 
 Since cuserid() is only in libcompat which is only a static library,
 making this change does not break ABI.
 
 I still wonder whether it's worth it, though. What breaks if L_cuserid
 != MAXLOGNAME? They are different constants, so may have different
 values.
 
 This breakage should be weighed against the possible breakage resulting
 from changing things about cuserid() and L_cuserid, since they are
 obsolete APIs used by old crufty code.
 
 > Alternatively, for HEAD, consider completely removing cuserid(3) from
 > libcompat and L_cuserid with it.
 
 This is an option. It looks like cuserid() is mostly used by high-level
 languages to make it available to high-level language code.
 
 Parts of me, however, like the ability of compiling ancient source code,
 be it with -lcompat and other strange options.
 
 -- 
 Jilles Tjoelker