--- Neal H Walfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 07:49:14PM +0200, Dios Del Tiempo wrote: > > --- James Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a ?crit : > > > xgethostname() should be good to go around MAXHOSTNAMELENGTH. > > > > I just red the page Development of the Distribution of Debian > GNU/Hurd and it > > says sysconf() as a solution for the MAXHOSTNAMELEN issue; > moreover, your > > Nessus' patch uses it. What is the right (and easy) way? > > sysconf can still return -1. >
Well, _SC_HOST_NAME_MAX isn't always defined. So that isn't a good direct way to do things. However, xgethostname uses sysconf if it can, but also deals with the problem if the name is too long. btw: nessus is a patch that hasn't been accepted. I should go back and fix it properly, but I need to put my hurd box back up. ===== James Morrison University of Waterloo Computer Science - Digital Hardware 1B __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
