From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: what's the purpose of MAXHOSTNAMELEN?
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:26:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091229202603.GM4815@const> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B3A64A8.5040104@garzik.org>
Jeff Garzik, le Tue 29 Dec 2009 15:20:56 -0500, a écrit :
> >>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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-29 20:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-29 19:19 what's the purpose of MAXHOSTNAMELEN? Robert P. J. Day
2009-12-29 19:28 ` Samuel Thibault
2009-12-29 19:40 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-12-29 19:56 ` Samuel Thibault
2009-12-29 20:20 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-12-29 20:26 ` Samuel Thibault [this message]
2009-12-29 21:00 ` Vikram Dhillon
2009-12-29 20:13 ` Robert P. J. Day
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