Hi, you can also check os.h, it seems to have MAXPATHLEN definition, I wonder if it can be used? Should probably be consolidated into one define, depending on which solution you decide.
Amadeusz > Hi Alex, > > thanks for looking into this. > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 11:08:53PM +0100, Alex Naumov wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 2:04 PM, Axel Beckert > > <invalid.nore...@gnu.org> wrote: > > > Of course it would be nice if this would be solved in a cleaner > > > way for an official fix. > > > > Like this? > > > > #ifndef PATH_MAX > > # ifdef _POSIX_PATH_MAX > > # define PATH_MAX _POSIX_PATH_MAX > > # endif > > #endif > > No, that's not what I had in mind. There is no such limit on Hurd, so > IMHO the code shouldn't enforce one. > > > Does GNU/Hurd know about _POSIX_PATH_MAX? > > It seems to, but that's just a little bit less ugly than what I did. > > Please see > https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/community/gsoc/project_ideas/maxpath.html > and > https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/porting/guidelines.html#PATH_MAX_tt_MAX_PATH_tt_MAXPATHL > > The latter suggests to define PATH_MAX as NULL, but there might be > some corner cases where it needs more than just using NULL, maybe some > additional checks for the value of PATH_MAX or so. > > Kind regards, Axel
