On 8 April 2012 13:43, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> wrote: > o While many UNIX-like systems provide a definition of PATH_MAX > in /usr/include/limits.h, POSIX deprecates this, and USS does not > provide one. IBM gives the rationale that the limit is filesystem- > dependent and code relying on it might become obsoleted by > new technology.
I'm just curious about these many UNIX-like, presumably non-POSIX, systems. There's Linux (or GNU Linux, if you prefer), but what are the others? > o A very deep path can cause "rm -rf" to fail in violation of POSIX > spec with a "too many open files" error. What has IBM's response been? Surely if they are POSIX/UNIX branded, they must comply. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
