on openbsd, NI_MAXHOST value is different from RFC2553. PR 1870

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/lib/libc/net/getnameinfo.3 b/src/lib/libc/net/getnameinfo.3
index 755e7bd482..f5d4084247 100644
--- a/src/lib/libc/net/getnameinfo.3
+++ b/src/lib/libc/net/getnameinfo.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"     $OpenBSD: getnameinfo.3,v 1.11 2001/01/05 13:43:02 itojun Exp $
+.\"     $OpenBSD: getnameinfo.3,v 1.12 2001/06/12 23:36:18 itojun Exp $
 .\"     $KAME: getnameinfo.3,v 1.20 2001/01/05 13:37:37 itojun Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1987, 1991, 1993
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ Therefore to aid the application in allocating buffers for these two
 returned strings the following constants are defined in
 .Aq Pa netdb.h :
 .Bd -literal -offset
-#define NI_MAXHOST  1025
+#define NI_MAXHOST    MAXHOSTNAMELEN
 #define NI_MAXSERV    32
 .Ed
 .Pp
@@ -302,3 +302,8 @@ and documented in
 The current implementation is not thread-safe.
 .Pp
 The text was shamelessly copied from RFC2553.
+.Pp
+.Ox
+intentionally uses different
+.Dv NI_MAXHOST
+value from what RFC2553 suggests, to avoid buffer length handling mistakes.