Re: Usernames > 16 characters

[Garance A Drosihn <drosih@xxxxxxx>]

Two more cents, and then I'll shutup for the night...

At 7:26 PM -0700 8/18/03, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     Urk!  Where's ut_host[] in utmpx?  I don't see it in the
>     specification...  Sigh.  So much for the single unix
>     specification!

Everybody else does seem to have ut_host.

>     Maybe I should just adopt the fields in the utmpx.h from
>     Linux.  It seems to have everything we need.

Solaris also adds:
         short   ut_syslen;   /* significant length of ut_host */
                              /*   including terminating null */

I did see your later message mentioning "not thread safe", so
this is just fyi.

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