[iyonix-support] Re: Bug/limit in Iyonix hosts file?

Hi
Sounds like a readline line length limit that has not usually been seen, hence hasn't been updated to use a longer buffer .. 

JB

David J. Ruck wrote:

On 31 Jan 2009 Paul Vigay <lists-nospam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Hi all,



Does anyone know if there is a maximum line length to entries in the hosts
file (BootResources:!Internet.files.hosts)?



I've got a local server entry with numerous aliases configured for it.
However, I've just added a new entry (taking the line length over 255
charactesr) and now the entire line is ignored.



On removing the new entry, all the other aliases start working again - so I
presume there must be a 255 character limit or something....?


More than likely.
I'm pleased there seems to be some input validation and it didn't buffer overflow and crash. 

Cheers
---Dave



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