2.4.2 issue still (ctlinnd and "message too long")

[Heiko Schlichting]

> On Sat, 2 Jul 2005, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > All of them handled 8KB packet sizes without any trouble except for Tru64
> > and FreeBSD, which can't handle a byte over 2KB.  So I'm afraid that INN
> > is running into (stupidly low) OS-imposed limits that there's no way
> > around without major surgery in how ctlinnd talks to innd, and doing the
> > latter isn't something on my list to work on.
> 
> Out of curiosity, why would ctlinnd messages ever need to be longer than 
> 2k?

Because INN can handle many connections and some of us do have a lot of news
peers:

$ ctlinnd name 450
Infostrada[192.106.1.115]:450
 
$ ctlinnd name ''
Can't send "name" command (short read failure) No such file or directory.

$ uname 
IRIX64

Heiko

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