patch to support hurd-i386

[Damien Miller]

On Fri, 29 Dec 2000 mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org wrote:

> I assume that MAXHOSTNAMELEN should be the same on every platform.  I just
> submitted a patch to define it at 64 characters if it's not found.

I feel very uneasy about this, can we define it per host (in configure.in)
only after we have verified it against each implementation?

I would much rather have a few platforms where compilation fails than
one where we get a buffer overrun.

-d

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