incoming.conf length limits

[Todd Olson]

Thank you Russ for the very helpful answers.

At 09:46 -0800 2003/01/17, Russ Allbery wrote:
>Todd Olson <tco2 at cornell.edu> writes:
>
> > length of lines in incoming.conf is SMBUF which is 256 bytes
> > QUESTIONS:
> >    2) how likely am I to run in to trouble in 2.2.2 if I
>>       change SMBUF to be larger, say 512 or 1024 ???
>>       (and recompile).  We are aiming for a non-binary service
>>       so our needs are fairly small ...
>
>It would probably be okay, but it would likely be easier to just change
>that one limit to BIG_BUFFER, which is the change that's in later versions
>of INN.


Sounds better. 

QUESTION:  As I am comparing 2.2.2 and 2.4 to understand
and backpatch the change, is it likely that I will have to look at
anything other than

    innd/rc.c        RCreaddata
and
    lib/conffile.c   CONFgetword

Regards,
Todd Olson
Cornell University