Hi,

On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, David Laight wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 09:59:04PM -0500, Chuck Yerkes wrote:
> > No reason I see for not going large - like 128 bytes (long double
> > byte names may be desirable).
>
> IMHO, to take it above 16, you need to make almost everything
> accept indefinite length names - with the possible exception
> of places where the value is being reported and it can be (reasonable)
> sagely truncated - but something else can be used to get the full name.

How would I do this?



> > Is it (`grep LOGIN /usr/include/*.h`):
> > /usr/include/limits.h:#define   _POSIX_LOGIN_NAME_MAX   9
>
> No.  Not least because the limit is 16 characters (+ a NUL).
k

Thanks,
Al