Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 11:33:12 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: c1args.c patches
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On Thu, 1 Jan 1998, DJ Delorie wrote:

> Shouldn't ARG_MAX depend on the transfer buffer size?  I don't see where
> LFN comes into play here.

I'm not sure why did I write that comment.  LFN does affect this in a
minor way, since DOS 7 can pass command lines longer than 126
characters, but I'm not sure I meant this.  Seems like a mistake on my
part.

> Also, gcc -Wall -Werror won't accept nested comments like that.

Sorry, I didn't know that.

The reason for the change, btw, was your message where you said that
if ARG_MAX is not a constant, it should not be defined at all by
limits.h, so that programs like `find' would detect this and use
`sysconf' instead.  I think that you said it was what POSIX specified.