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List:       monetdb-developers
Subject:    Re: [Monetdb-developers] HOST_NAME_MAX op mac os 10.5
From:       Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd () acm ! org>
Date:       2008-05-29 8:21:43
Message-ID: 483E6797.6040803 () acm ! org
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Fabian Groffen wrote:
> On 29-05-2008 09:38:35 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote:
>> On 28-05-2008 17:44:17 +0200, Ying Zhang wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> I use HOST_NAME_MAX in my code.  Compiling the code on a CWI machine  
>>> does not have any problem, however, compilation on Mac OS 10.5  
>>> complains that HOST_NAME_MAX is not defined.  fgrep on mac 10.5 says:
>>>
>>> $fgrep -r HOST_NAME_MAX /usr/include/*
>>> /usr/include/limits.h:#define _POSIX_HOST_NAME_MAX    255
>>> /usr/include/unistd.h:#define	_SC_HOST_NAME_MAX		72
>>>
>>> How (and where) can I add proper check to define HOST_NAME_MAX for  
>>> darwin 9?
>> Create a configure check, or define it within guards when it's not
>> defined.
> 
> PS. since OSX 10.5 is UNIX 2003, you probably define HOST_NAME_MAX as
> _POSIX_HOST_NAME_MAX.
> 
> Note that on Solaris (10):
> 
> [hathor:usr/portage/scripts] % grep HOST_NAME_MAX /usr/include/*
> /usr/include/limits.h:#define   _POSIX_HOST_NAME_MAX 255
> [hathor:usr/portage/scripts] % grep HOST_NAME_MAX /usr/include/sys/*
> /usr/include/sys/unistd.h:#define       _SC_HOST_NAME_MAX 735

Note that _SC_HOST_NAME_MAX is the argument to sysconf (see man sysconf)
to find out what the kernel's value for HOST_NAME_MAX is.  It is not
itself the value.

-- 
Sjoerd Mullender


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