Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <3A71804B.F2D7E82D@yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 08:48:59 -0500 From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: Earnie Boyd , newlib@sources.redhat.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrej Borsenkow CC: Cygwin Mailing List , newlib@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: PATH_MAX and FILENAME_MAX References: <000001c0877f$67915cf0$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Note-from-DJ: This may be spam 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 > */ > /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. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple