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Date:	Fri, 26 Jan 2001 08:48:59 -0500
From:	Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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To:	Andrej Borsenkow <Andrej DOT Borsenkow AT mow DOT siemens DOT ru>
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Subject:	Re: PATH_MAX and FILENAME_MAX
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Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
> 
> Doing something different, this caught my eyes:
> 
> $ grep PATH_MAX /usr/include/*.h
> /usr/include/limits.h:#define PATH_MAX (260 - 1 /*NUL*/)
> /usr/include/limits.h:#define _POSIX_PATH_MAX           255
> /usr/include/stdio.h:#define    FILENAME_MAX    1024    /* must be <= PATH_MAX
> <sys/syslimits.h> */
> /usr/include/stdio.h:#define    L_tmpnam        1024    /* XXX must be ==
> PATH_MAX */
> 
> So are comments misleading or FILENAME_MAX (and L_tmpnam) should be changed?
> 

The comments are correct.  This is a newlib issue.  I've CC'ed the
newlib list in my response.

Earnie.

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