docs/143472

[Bruce Cran]

The following reply was made to PR docs/143472; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bruce Cran <bruce at cran.org.uk>
To: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: docs/143472
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 21:34:14 +0000

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 I've attached a patch which should fix the issue.
 
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 Bruce Cran
 
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 Index: gen/gethostname.3
 ===================================================================
 --- gen/gethostname.3	(revision 218613)
 +++ gen/gethostname.3	(working copy)
 @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
  The
  .Fn gethostname
  function
 -returns the standard host name for the current processor, as
 +returns the standard host name for the current machine, as
  previously set by
  .Fn sethostname .
  The
 @@ -68,9 +68,9 @@
  This call is restricted to the super-user and
  is normally used only when the system is bootstrapped.
  .Pp
 -Host names are limited to
 -.Brq Dv HOST_NAME_MAX
 -characters, not including the trailing null, currently 255.
 +Applications should use
 +.Fn sysconf _SC_HOST_NAME_MAX
 +to find the maximum length of a host name (not including the terminating null).
  .Sh RETURN VALUES
  .Rv -std
  .Sh ERRORS
 
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