Re: gethostname max len

[Kevin Ryde]

Wolfgang Jaehrling <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Which is what Guile probably also should do, otherwise it won't work
> correctly on the GNU system, which has no limit on the length of host
> names;

Oh, is that how the -1 is to be understood?  Nosing around the glibc
sources it looked only like it didn't have an implementation for
HOST_NAME_MAX yet.

> the current code that checks for ENAMETOOLONG looks quite
> GNU/Linux-specific.

Yep.  (I'm not proposing to change that, only to get a better first
size for the buffer.)