From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 13 11:50:43 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6B74188; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:50:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kostikbel@gmail.com) Received: from kib.kiev.ua (kib.kiev.ua [IPv6:2001:470:d5e7:1::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 113A38FC12; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:50:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from tom.home (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kib.kiev.ua (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id qADBoYr7037546; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:50:34 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from kostikbel@gmail.com) X-DKIM: OpenDKIM Filter v2.5.2 kib.kiev.ua qADBoYr7037546 Received: (from kostik@localhost) by tom.home (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id qADBoY3b037545; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:50:34 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from kostikbel@gmail.com) X-Authentication-Warning: tom.home: kostik set sender to kostikbel@gmail.com using -f Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:50:34 +0200 From: Konstantin Belousov To: Baptiste Daroussin Subject: Re: Increasing MAXLOGNAME from 17 to 33 Message-ID: <20121113115034.GJ73505@kib.kiev.ua> References: <20121113111806.GE62533@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="cUzoOeFTT7puyy6E" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20121113111806.GE62533@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,FREEMAIL_FROM,NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on tom.home Cc: arch@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:50:43 -0000 --cUzoOeFTT7puyy6E Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: attachment Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 12:18:06PM +0100, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > Hi, >=20 > I want to increase MAXLOGNAME in sys/param.h from 17 to 33 to allow 32-ch= aracter > long usernames, the PR: misc/161091 and misc/133926 already requested for= it. >=20 > utmpx already allow 32 character long user names. >=20 > I plan to bump the __FreeBSD_version at the same time because of the ABI > breakage. >=20 > This is simplify life of lots administrator, this value, is a common valu= e for > other operating systems. >=20 > Do anyone have objections about it? Yes, I have. Do not break the ABI, it is plain prohibited. You might consider increasing the constant only if providing ABI compatibility shims. In fact, the cursory look over the whole base system indicates that ABI breakage might be not that big and could be mitigated with relatively limited amount of the efforts. --cUzoOeFTT7puyy6E Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAlCiNAoACgkQC3+MBN1Mb4jPUwCeNk2Pp4hOQlp53nRmlitiNhMk kgIAn1BPmg0rbtolEo3j3lEUNX5C4zme =qgII -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --cUzoOeFTT7puyy6E--