Re: host name length

From: Ulrich Drepper
Date: Sun Dec 05 2004 - 14:50:10 EST


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Randy.Dunlap wrote:

> Can you show/tell me where _POSIX_HOST_NAME_MAX is specified to be
> at least 256?

XBD, page 255 (in the 2004 edition), <limits.h>

{_POSIX_HOST_NAME_MAX}
Maximum length of a host name (not including the terminating null) as
returned from the /gethostname()/ function.
Value: 255

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