On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 07:07:26PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: >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.
I mention "common practice" and you point me at a discussion which talks about the Hurd??? The Hurd????????????????????????????????????????????? Wow. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/