Developer's Toolkit Release Notes for HP-UX 11i

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Known Problems and Bugs

CDE Hostname Character Length

CDE does not support hostnames which are greater than 8 characters.

Many types of networking services are supported on HP-UX, each of

which uses a separately assigned system name and naming convention.

To ensure predictable system behavior, it is essential that system names

(also called host names or node names) be assigned in such a manner

that they do not create conflicts when the various networking facilities

interact with one another.

One of the networking services used by CDE is uname(2). This is a

POSIX.1, XPG4 compliant interface which restricts node names (system

names) to 8 characters (plus a trailing NULL). This requires that CDE

limit system names to 8 characters.