Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 11:45:34 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: For masochists: the leap o faith
Message-ID: <20031115164534.GB3039@redhat.com>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
References: <3FB4D81C DOT 6010808 AT cygwin DOT com> <3FB53BAE DOT 3000803 AT cygwin DOT com> <20031114220708 DOT GA26100 AT redhat DOT com> <3FB55BCE DOT 8030304 AT cygwin DOT com> <20031115044347 DOT GA29583 AT redhat DOT com> <1068883645 DOT 1109 DOT 122 DOT camel AT localhost>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <1068883645.1109.122.camel@localhost>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i

On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 07:07:26PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 15:43, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>Yes, I've already (obviously?) been to SUSv3.  I wasn't talking about
>>standards.  I was talking about common practice.
>>
>>If you have a common practice web site that you want to show me then
>>that might be a convincing argument.  Otherwise, I'll have to fall back
>>on my personal UNIX experience.
>
>http://zebra.fh-weingarten.de/~maxi/html/mplayer-dev-eng/2003-04/msg00600.html
>
>Part of a thread on this in another project.  Seems like the hurd
>follows the no-PATH_MAX, use pathconf() always approach.  Which means
>that everything thats portable to the hurd, will Do The Right Thing, if
>we eliminate the PATH_MAX and MAXPATHLEN defines.  In my digging, I
>found that PATH_MAX, if defined, MUST be the largest path length
>possible.  Presumably thats so that programs with static buffers won't
>run into trouble.

I mention "common practice" and you point me at a discussion which talks
about the Hurd???  The Hurd?????????????????????????????????????????????

Wow.

cgf

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/