The reason for that code seems to be some ancient AIX version that
defined a value that was too small (32). We don't support such systems.
In the link below, I found the following comment and code:
/*
* Some AIX versions advertise a too small MAXHOSTNAMELEN value (32).
* Result: long hostnames would be truncated, and connections would be
* dropped because of host name verification failures. Adrian van Bloois
* (A.vanBloois@info.nic.surfnet.nl) figured out what was the problem.
*/
#if (MAXHOSTNAMELEN < 64)
#undef MAXHOSTNAMELEN
#endif
/* In case not defined in <sys/param.h>. */
#ifndef MAXHOSTNAMELEN
#define MAXHOSTNAMELEN 256 /* storage for host name */
#endif
Today's systems seem to be much better regarding this macro. Rely on
them.
Link: <https://sources.debian.org/src/tcp-wrappers/7.6.q-33/workarounds.c/?hl=36#L36>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <sys/param.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h> /* for inet_ntoa() */
#include "string/strtok/stpsep.h"
-#if !defined(MAXHOSTNAMELEN) || (MAXHOSTNAMELEN < 64)
-#undef MAXHOSTNAMELEN
-#define MAXHOSTNAMELEN 256
-#endif
-
/* Path name of the access control file. */
#ifndef TABLE
#define TABLE "/etc/login.access"