Re: $TERM size (was: Re: New release?)

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 07:52:44PM +0200, Carsten Mattner wrote:
> > Also I think if we change that value, it should be changed with more
> > farsight and not only extended by 4 bytes. The Debian packagedoubled
> > the size and uses 40 bytes for that.
> >
> > Full patch at
> > http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/screen/4.1.0~20120320gitdb59704-9/50increase-max-TERM-length.patch
> 
> Oh I see and do you agree that a final patch to be included should
> define the constant once and reuse that?

Definitely. Debian's patch to allow longer user names actually does
that already IIRC.

                Kind regards, Axel
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