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Description: Document process field limit in error message and manual page
Author: Johannes Truschnigg <johannes@truschnigg.info>
Last-Update: 2012-11-23
Status: applied upstream
diff --git a/man/inittab.5 b/man/inittab.5
index e1d739d..80aa084 100644
--- a/man/inittab.5
+++ b/man/inittab.5
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ a `+' character,
.B init
will not do utmp and wtmp accounting for that process. This is needed for
gettys that insist on doing their own utmp/wtmp housekeeping. This is also
-a historic bug.
+a historic bug. The length of this field is limited to 127 characters.
.\"}}}
.PP
The \fIrunlevels\fP field may contain multiple characters for different
diff --git a/src/init.c b/src/init.c
index 27532ad..f8bf891 100644
--- a/src/init.c
+++ b/src/init.c
@@ -1314,7 +1314,7 @@ void read_inittab(void)
if (rlevel && strlen(rlevel) > 11)
strcpy(err, "rlevel field too long (max 11 characters)");
if (process && strlen(process) > 127)
- strcpy(err, "process field too long");
+ strcpy(err, "process field too long (max 127 characters)");
if (action && strlen(action) > 32)
strcpy(err, "action field too long");
if (err[0] != 0) {
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