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Author Re: PATH_MAX
Geoff Clare

2007-06-25, 8:06 am

phil-news-nospam wrote:

> If the OS kernel imposes no limit whatsoever, and the limit
> is thusly whatever memory is available, how do you define PATH_MAX?

POSIX requires that for this case, PATH_MAX is not defined as a
constant in <limits.h>, and [f]pathconf(..., _PC_PATH_MAX) returns -1
without changing errno.

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Geoff Clare <netnews@gclare.org.uk>
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