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Subject: Re: [9front] [PATCH 6/6] ndb: document attribute name and value length constraints in BUGS section of man page
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Quoth unobe@cpan.org:
> Thanks, ori.  I hadn't noticed that!  But I don't see any
> corresponding soft limit for the attribute.  Do I understand correctly
> that /sys/src/libndb/ndbaux.c:34 just clips the attribute down to 32
> bytes?

That seems like a bad idea; we should almost certainly return an error.