utmp.h: UT_HOSTSIZE

Marc Olzheim marcolz at stack.nl
Tue May 6 14:51:33 UTC 2008


On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 03:11:35PM +0200, Lukasz Jaroszewski wrote:
> just by curiosity, why  #define UT_HOSTSIZE  is 16, not 256, like in
> OtherBSDs and some unix-like-like OSes? :)

Probably historical reasons. It's very much possible to change it
though.  We've defined it to 64 since FreeBSD 2.05 and never really had
any trouble.

Marc


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