Tiny bug in lockd. Dies if hostname too long.

[diamond@tkovoa]

In article <1990Jul20.160851.2846 at Neon.Stanford.EDU> farhad at CS.Stanford.EDU (Farhad Shakeri) writes:

>The problem with lockd was that in prot_libr.c the buffer
>hostname was limited to 20 characters (line 37 3.1c source)
>and the same for gethostname() function (line 73).  When I
>doubled these sizes, everything worked.

I would #include <sys/param.h> and use the macro MAXHOSTNAMELEN
instead of an arbitrary number.  MAXHOSTNAMELEN is 64 on an
Ultrix 4.0 machine in our department.

Can't answer your other questions; it sounds like you have more
source code than our department has.
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