Call for testing: OpenSSH 6.8

Tom G. Christensen tgc at jupiterrise.com
Wed Feb 25 07:50:54 AEDT 2015


On 24/02/15 20:20, Damien Miller wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Feb 2015, Tom G. Christensen wrote:
>> I don't know if it would be reasonable to include <netdb.h>
>> from includes.h but that would make HOST_NAME_MAX fall back to
>> MAXHOSTNAMELEN on at least Solaris < 10.
>
> I guess we could do this:
>
> diff --git includes.h includes.h
> index c3034e3..ec74998 100644
> --- includes.h
> +++ includes.h
> @@ -171,6 +171,8 @@
>   #include <openssl/opensslv.h> /* For OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER */
>   #endif
>
> +#include <netdb.h> /* For MAXHOSTNAMELEN */
> +
>   #include "defines.h"
>
>   #include "platform.h"
>

Exactly.
I tested such a change on Solaris 2.6 and it builds and HOST_NAME_MAX 
falls back to MAXHOSTNAMELEN.

I also had a quick look at a Solaris 10 host and it has 
_POSIX_HOST_NAME_MAX in <limits.h> which is already included.

-tgc


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