#648181 libwrap0: please remove the 2048-character line limit in /etc/hosts.allow

Package:
libwrap0
Source:
tcp-wrappers
Description:
Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers library
Submitter:
"Steinar H. Gunderson"
Date:
2011-11-09 20:36:05 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#648181#5
Date:
2011-11-09 11:37:25 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,

There's a hard limit of 2047 bytes for each line (after line continuations) in
files like /etc/hosts.allow. As we have a pretty extensive list, this sounds
a bit cumbersome; there's no good reason why this needs to be a static buffer.
Can this restriction be lifted somehow by using a dynamically growing one instead?
#648181#10
Date:
2011-11-09 20:31:13 UTC
From:
To:
I do not know, but I do not look forward to modify mature security
sensitive code which I do not know well.