From 8738974f3a88aad341ed19df98e5b0d092a7ebbf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@cvs.openbsd.org>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 23:36:19 +0000
Subject: on openbsd, NI_MAXHOST value is different from RFC2553.  PR 1870

---
 lib/libc/net/getnameinfo.3 | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/libc/net/getnameinfo.3 b/lib/libc/net/getnameinfo.3
index 755e7bd4829..f5d40842470 100644
--- a/lib/libc/net/getnameinfo.3
+++ b/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.
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