Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 6 May 2008 16:51:31 +0200
From:      Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl>
To:        Lukasz Jaroszewski <sigtrm@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: utmp.h: UT_HOSTSIZE
Message-ID:  <20080506145131.GA24882@zlo.nu>
In-Reply-To: <aed2bfaf0805060611y23eaaae6le6f762bff1dab452@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <aed2bfaf0805060611y23eaaae6le6f762bff1dab452@mail.gmail.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 03:11:35PM +0200, Lukasz Jaroszewski wrote:
> just by curiosity, why  #define UT_HOSTSIZE  is 16, not 256, like in
> OtherBSDs and some unix-like-like OSes? :)

Probably historical reasons. It's very much possible to change it
though.  We've defined it to 64 since FreeBSD 2.05 and never really had
any trouble.

Marc



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20080506145131.GA24882>