Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:26:03 +0100
From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Subject: Re: what's the purpose of MAXHOSTNAMELEN?
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Jeff Garzik, le Tue 29 Dec 2009 15:20:56 -0500, a ?crit :
> >>What is it used for in userspace, and why is it export from the kernel?
> >
> >Gethostname, typically, but also all kinds of functions that provide a
> >hostname.  It's also quite often completely badly used, for instance for
> >getnameinfo()...
> >
> >You have Debian's list on
> >http://unstable.buildd.net/buildd/hurd-i386_Failed.html
> 
> No one cares about Hurd.

That wasn't at all the point of my inclusion of the URL, see above.  If
you drop it, you'll get all kinds of build failures.  I just happened to
use the Debian Hurd build failures as a quick way to get a list.

Samuel
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