For masochists: the leap o faith

Robert Collins rbcollins@cygwin.com
Sat Nov 15 08:07:00 GMT 2003


On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 15:43, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> Yes, I've already (obviously?) been to SUSv3.  I wasn't talking about
> standards.  I was talking about common practice.
> 
> If you have a common practice web site that you want to show me then
> that might be a convincing argument.  Otherwise, I'll have to fall back
> on my personal UNIX experience.

http://zebra.fh-weingarten.de/~maxi/html/mplayer-dev-eng/2003-04/msg00600.html

Part of a thread on this in another project. Seems like the hurd follows
the no-PATH_MAX, use pathconf() always approach. Which means that
everything thats portable to the hurd, will Do The Right Thing, if we
eliminate the PATH_MAX and MAXPATHLEN defines. In my digging, I found
that PATH_MAX, if defined, MUST be the largest path length possible.
Presumably thats so that programs with static buffers won't run into
trouble.

Either way(increase PATH_MAX or remove it), to support longer paths,
we'll need to make the change and transition to it. So, as I see it the
question for you is : which route do you prefer?

Rob
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