Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 14 Nov 2001 16:04:38 -0600 | From | Thomas Dodd <> | Subject | Re: Modutils can't handle long kernel names |
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Keith Owens wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Nov 2001 23:23:43 +0100, > andersg@0x63.nu wrote: >>On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 04:34:00PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote: >>> It is not a modutils problem, it is a fixed restriction on the size of >>> the uname() fields, modutils just uses what uname -r gives it.
> +uts_len := 64 > +uts_truncate := sed -e 's/\(.\{1,$(uts_len)\}\).*/\1/'
Should this be a fixed length of 64? Or should it be grabbed form a header somewhere? So when/if SYS_NMLN/_UTSNAME_LENGTH is changed longer strings can be used? I check and Solaris 8 defines SYS_NMLN as 257.
Would this break cross-comiling badly? Are other libc headers needed in the build?
-Thomas
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