Re: [PATCH] POSIX-hostname up to 255 characters

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

On Fri, 2006-05-26 03:14:06 -0600, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > This patch is against 2.6.17-rc5, for review/comments, please.
> > It won't apply to -mm since Andrew has merged the uts-namespace patches.
> > I'll see about merging it with those patches next.
> > ---
> >
> > From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Implement POSIX-defined length for 'hostname' so that hostnames
> > can be longer than 64 characters (max. 255 characters plus
> > terminating NULL character).
> >
> > Adds sys_gethostname_long() and sys_sethostname_long().
> > Tested on i386 and x86_64.
> 
> Is there any particular reason for this?
> The existing sys_gethostname and sys_sethostname interfaces
> should work for any string length.
> 
> Although I do agree that we need at least one new syscall
> for the architectures that don't currently use get_hostname.

...and this should have gone to linux-arch, too...

MfG, JBG

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