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Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 15:53:02 -0500
To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>,
	Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>
From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Subject: Re: MAXHOSTNAMELEN
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At 1:42 PM -0500 3/7/01, Garrett Wollman wrote:
><<On Wed, 7 Mar 2001 18:24:53 +0200, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> said:
>
>>  This could be fixed by redefining MAXHOSTNAMELEN to 255.  Garrett?
>
>Please wait until I get a resolution of my aardvark on this topic.  I
>have proposed introduction of a new system parameter {HOST_NAME_MAX}
>which is explicit about the terminating NUL.

Perhaps the name should be explicit too...
     HOSTNAME_PLUS_NULL_MAX

:-)

(it's a joke.  calm down everyone...)
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