Re: PATH_MAX

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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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