I think this will be my last posting on this topic. I don't think anything useful is being added now -- you appear to just be flaming. I don't really want to encourage that.
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 02:10:50PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > My point is that you are willing to deliberately introduce a bug! I can't follow what you're saying. I'm not introducing anything. > > > You really think this is a serious cost in > > > a program that is doing lots of encryption?? > > > > No, I don't -- I just think it is a bug. One which is easy to fix for > > the single-threaded case. > > It's a bug to correctly support long hostnames? You've chopped too much. The `bug' I refer to above is that the xgethostname implementation that was forwarded to me uses realloc unnecessarily. You seem anxious to put words into my mouth. > I remember when passwords were limited to eight characters. "What > possible value is there in a longer password?" we were asked. We have > since learned that there is such value. Much like comparing the hostname to pathnames, this is an apples-to-oranges comparison. Besides, since the system can define HOST_NAME_MAX to be any value larger than _POSIX_HOST_NAME_MAX, there is no arbitrary limit. As has been discussed, this is the reason the constant was introduced (rather than a hard limit of 255). > I don't know what possible value there is in huge hostnames. But I > have enough humility to know that in nearly every case where there has > been a fixed limit on the length of a thing, it has turned out to be a > serious problem, and needed to be fixed. I expect this case will be > the same. You haven't shown any humility at all. Far from it, you insist that your point of view is the only possibly valid one. > Since it's easy to simply handle the case correctly, why not do so? > Why deliberately cripple the software? ``Have you stopped <dishonourable-practice> yet?'' I've outlined why I think having the situation with gethostname on GNU/Hurd stinks. We disagree, but there's no need for an attack. Cheers, -- Jacques A. Vidrine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.nectar.com/ Verio Web Hosting = FreeBSD UNIX = Heimdal Kerberos [EMAIL PROTECTED] = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
