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Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 10:40:21 -0500
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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Benjamin Riefenstahl wrote:
> 
> Hi Earnie,
> 
> Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com> writes:
> > Well, I'm perplexed that it MAX_PATH and _MAX_PATH isn't set in the
> > Cygwin headers already somewhere.
> 
> Why should it?
> 

For porting idiosyncrasy.


> ISO C has FILENAME_MAX in <stdio.h>, which is set to 1024 in my
> version of Cygwin.  

Well, it appears you've located a different problem.  1024 is too large.

> POSIX has PATH_MAX in <limits.h> which is set to
> 259 here.  And than there is pathconf() in <unistd.h> for the real
> POSIX fans.
> 

Yea, I found that and later corrected myself to say the change should be
to limits.h.  The change could do the POSIX compliance check and not
define them for POSIX only code.

> MAX_PATH OTOH seems to be an MS Windows invention and is not in any
> standard, or is it?
> 

Well, it is a MS Windows standard.  And if _WIN32 is defined shouldn't I
expect to find a Win32 standard definition such as MAX_PATH and
_MAX_PATH defined?  Even Cygwin itself uses MAX_PATH, E.G.:
/usr/include/sys/cygwin.h.

Cheers,
Earnie.

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