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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: kern/36425: bump up SYS_NMLN in sys/utsname.h
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The following reply was made to PR kern/36425; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To: Matthias Buelow <mkb@wi4d22.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: kern/36425: bump up SYS_NMLN in sys/utsname.h
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 18:44:01 -0500 (EST)

 <<On Thu, 28 Mar 2002 19:56:13 +0100 (CET), Matthias Buelow <mkb@wi4d22.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> said:
 
 > 	256 characters.)  As a result, one cannot reliably obtain the
 > 	hostname via uname(3),
 
 This is true in general, which is why POSIX 2001 adopted the
 gethostname() interface.
 
 -GAWollman
 

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