patch to support hurd-i386

[mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org]

On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Damien Miller wrote:
> 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.
> 
After looking around the source again I think it may be best.  Since
MAXHOSTNAMELEN is used as the default size of utmp_len in sshd.c.  Which
does change per platform.

So if Hurd group and any other platform that needs a MAXHOSTNAMELEN submit
a patch to add it to your configure.in section based on your utmp
structure.

- Ben