"Jacques A. Vidrine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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 think you missed the point here. If we set HOST_NAME_MAX to any particular value, then that value becomes an arbitrary limit. We, the system designers, cannot know at compile time what the limit should be. Perhaps the Right Thing is to set HOST_NAME_MAX to maxint. Will that be fine? It would conform to the standard and put to rest claims that we are somehow remiss by not defining it. Thomas _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
