Patch-ID# 100654-01
Keywords: installtxt, message, 255, limit, locale, internationalization
Synopsis: INSTALLTXT HAS UNDOCUMENTED LIMITS OF TAG SIZE 127 AND MESSAGE SIZE 255
Date:  
 
SunOS release: 4.1.1, 4.1.2
 
Topic: installxt enforces unrealistic message size limits
 
BugId's fixed with this patch:  1068811

Architectures for which this patch is available:   sun3 (all), sun4 (all)

Patches which may conflict with this patch:  

Note: xpg porting guide says message size is unlimited

Obsoleted by:

Problem Description: 
installtxt has undocumented limits of tag size 127 and message size 255.
Exceeding these limits fails silently by truncating message so that tag +
message is 384 characters long.  XPG porting guide specification does not
limit the length of messages.

This fix increases message size limit to 4096.  Future release should
have 'unlimited' message and tag lengths.



INSTALL:

As root.

mv /usr/etc/installtxt /usr/etc/installtxt.fcs
cp `arch`/{4.1.1,4.1.2}/installtxt /usr/etc/installtxt
chmod 755 /usr/etc/installtxt
chown root.staff /usr/etc/installtxt