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From: diamond@tkou02.enet.dec.com (diamond@tkovoa)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Tiny bug in lockd.  Dies if hostname too long.
Message-ID: <1866@tkou02.enet.dec.com>
Date: 23 Jul 90 05:32:20 GMT
References: <1990Jul20.160851.2846@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: diamond@tkou02.enet.dec.com (diamond@tkovoa)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Japan , Tokyo
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In article <1990Jul20.160851.2846@Neon.Stanford.EDU> farhad@CS.Stanford.EDU (Farhad Shakeri) writes:

>The problem with lockd was that in prot_libr.c the buffer
>hostname was limited to 20 characters (line 37 3.1c source)
>and the same for gethostname() function (line 73).  When I
>doubled these sizes, everything worked.

I would #include <sys/param.h> and use the macro MAXHOSTNAMELEN
instead of an arbitrary number.  MAXHOSTNAMELEN is 64 on an
Ultrix 4.0 machine in our department.

Can't answer your other questions; it sounds like you have more
source code than our department has.
-- 
Norman Diamond, Nihon DEC     diamond@tkou02.enet.dec.com
This is me speaking.  If you want to hear the company speak, you need DECtalk.