Subject: Re: UT_HOSTSIZE vs. MAXHOSTNAMELEN
To: Brian Stark <bstark@siemens-psc.com>
From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
List: current-users
Date: 10/01/1999 17:23:55
> I think UT_HOSTSIZE needs to be increased. Comments anyone?

This has been discussed before.

You can't do it without breaking binary compatibility with existing
programs, some of which include third-party programs like screen,
which read utmp.  Backwards binary compatibility is regarded as a good
thing (regardless of what G**g W**ds says).

Someone needs to APIify the utmp interface so we can rev things like
this without causing trauma.

					- Bill