[PATCH] Remove hardcoded static string length

Andrew Lunn andrew at lunn.ch
Wed May 24 09:01:42 PDT 2023


> I don't think there is an RFC describing RX, but the closest thing to
> a spec (https://web.mit.edu/kolya/afs/rx/rx-spec) states:
> 
> "If a server receives a packet with a type value of 13, and the
> client-initiated flag set, it should respond with a 65-byte payload
> containing a string that identifies the version of AFS software it is
> running."
> 
> So while it may not actually cause any issues (the few things that
> look at the data just truncate past 65), it's probably best to keep
> the response at a fixed 65 bytes.

Thanks for the link and the quote.

So the compiler warning/error needs to be fixed a different want.

    Andrew

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