Subject: Re: using long usernames
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 02/24/2003 20:49:23
In article <87adglpgre.fsf@snark.piermont.com>,
Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com> wrote:
>
>christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas) writes:
>> /usr/src/sys/sys/param.h:#define MAXLOGNAME      (LOGIN_NAME_MAX - 1)
>/* max login name length */
>
>The full set of lines say:
>
>/* DEPRECATED: use LOGIN_NAME_MAX instead. */
>#define MAXLOGNAME      (LOGIN_NAME_MAX - 1) /* max login name length */
>
>So if it is deprecated, we should yank it. If it is not deprecated, we
>should remove the comment.

Well, we should consider adding a #define which when defined, deprecated
defines do not get defined, so that we can clean our source from them.

err, did I say that right :-)

christos