Quoting David Laight (david@l8s.co.uk):
> On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 09:59:04PM -0500, Chuck Yerkes wrote:
...
> 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.
> 
> > 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).

"the limit is 16 characters"

What defines that limit?  SOME variable should be defining it
and I didn't find it quickly.

chuck

(and I set reply-to intentionally).