From: michael DOT mauch AT gmx DOT de (Michael Mauch)
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Subject: Re: How should gethostname() work?
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 18:04:55 +0200
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On Tue, 31 Mar 1998 00:31:22 GMT, mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot)
wrote:

> Your calculation of `len' is not watertight here;

Yes, you are right; I didn't see this.

As Eli posted already, his much better patch is at Tom Demmer's site
(ftp://ftp.lstm.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/pub/djgpp/patches).

> Finally, note that `dosbuf' is only used when getting the hostname
> from DOS networking systems.  Perhaps the return string from the
> interrupt is only allowed to be 16 characters long (I'm not sure) --
> in which case there's not much point in making `dosbuf' MAXHOSTNAME
> bytes long.

You're right here, too. Ralf Brown's Interrupt List says that it has to
be only 16 characters - I have to get some spectacles.

Sorry for the trouble I caused.

Regards...
		Michael