Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 14:58:53 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/calendar io.c Message-ID: <200103011458.f21Ewrx02627@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org> of "Wed, 28 Feb 2001 21:47:30 PST." <200103010547.f215lUw98788@freefall.freebsd.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Ah good ! I've been looking for a reason to bring this up.
Does anybody (Garrett, Bruce?) know definitively which of the various
*LEN variables include NUL ? I think I know, but it's nice to pass
it by people that may know better :)
MAXHOSTNAMELEN:
Man pages seem to say that this is the limit for a host name length,
so it doesn't include the NUL, however sources such as dig call
gethostname with a variable exactly MAXHOSTNAMELEN big, and expect
the results to be NUL terminated. char hostname[] as declared in
sys/kernel.h seems to be consistent with this, so I guess
MAXHOSTNAMELEN does include space for a NUL.
man pages such as gethostname(3) should be fixed.
MAXNAMELEN:
intro(2) suggests that this doesn't include space for a NUL - seems
right.
MAXPATHLEN
intro(2) suggests that this does include space for a NUL - seems right.
> imp 2001/02/28 21:47:30 PST
>
> Modified files:
> usr.bin/calendar io.c
> Log:
> MAXPATHLEN includes the trailing NUL character, so there's no need to add 1
> to it for the size of path.
>
> Revision Changes Path
> 1.14 +2 -2 src/usr.bin/calendar/io.c
--
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org>
<http://www.Awfulhak.org>; <brian@[uk.]OpenBSD.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !
To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200103011458.f21Ewrx02627>