forwarded message from mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 08:18:55AM -0500, mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org wrote:
> I think you missed the point.  =) The point is that I'd rather have
> consistant behavior over every OS then 4 platforms that continue since
> they have ENAMETOOLONG and the other 20+ fail.  Being consistant for
> errors is the best when dealing with multiple OS projects.  Which was my
> point above.

Ah, I see now.  Sorry, I was indeed confused.  Well, we would be happy with
a change that only applies to systems which don't define MAXHOSTNAMELEN in
the first place. (and you can put both versions in xgethostname, so it is
completely transparent to the rest of the program).

> We have an announcement list, but I don't believe we have ever used it to
> call for beta testers.  Damien, do I have rights to post to the
> announcement list?  Maybe we should start announcing testing during the
> code freezes.

If you announce code freezes I (and maybe others) will subscribe and try to
make sure it gets tested on the Hurd (eg, if I don't have time, I forward it
to one of the Hurd lists for other people to step up).

Thanks,
Marcus

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