On 11/4/05, Jonathan S. Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 08:00 +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
>
> > This is completely wrong (and I made the same wrong statement before).
> > First, you only need to recompile the programs using PATH_MAX.
>
> Actually, not. You only need to recompile existing programs when
> PATH_MAX *shrinks*.
>
I wonder what happens to all those programs that use PATH_MAX to
allocate a static buffer and then receive a longer pathname bacause
the constant has been increased.

Thanks

Michal

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