From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 22 03:53:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA14786 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 22 May 1997 03:53:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id DAA14781 for ; Thu, 22 May 1997 03:53:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id MAA02775 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 22 May 1997 12:53:31 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA10557; Thu, 22 May 1997 12:46:41 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970522124641.TZ57175@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 12:46:41 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Slight problems after upgrade 2.2.1 -> 2.2.2 References: <3.0.1.32.19970521205601.00cfd590@mail.nacamar.de> <19970521220115.OG57138@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199705220444.OAA05825@ogre.dtir.qld.gov.au> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199705220444.OAA05825@ogre.dtir.qld.gov.au>; from Stephen McKay on May 22, 1997 14:44:02 +1000 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Stephen McKay wrote: > >That's because it has been prepared for eventually upcoming support of > >16-char usernames. (It's already been in -current for some time now.) > > "prepared"? I think "accidentally included from -current" is more > accurate. ...but i remember some discussion afterwards that it shouldn't be reverted either. > >The better way would be to dynamically calculate the required size. > > I agree, but how dynamically? Probably by determining the longest actual username beforehand? No idea. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)