Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 10:40:22 -0800 (PST) From: Valentin Nechayev <netch@ivb.nn.kiev.ua> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: misc/63020: 'utsname' structure field 'nodename' is too short Message-ID: <200403271840.i2RIeMVT044194@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR misc/63020; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Valentin Nechayev <netch@ivb.nn.kiev.ua> To: Cian Synnott <cian.synnott@eircom.net> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, cirt@eircom.net Subject: Re: misc/63020: 'utsname' structure field 'nodename' is too short Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:38:21 +0200 CS> The utsname structure defined in the sys/utsname.h has a maximum of CS> 32 characters on all fields, including the 'nodename' - the network CS> name of the machine. This could reasonably be expected by a CS> programmer using the uname() call to be MAXHOSTNAMELEN in length. CS> However, long hostnames returned from the wrapped sysctl() are CS> truncated. 5.* fixes this using variable sized utsname. I think 4.* would not be fixed because their life is closed to finish. -netch-
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