Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 16:38:59 +0300
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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> From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT softhome DOT net>
> Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 09:31:43 -0400
> 
> If your saying PATH_MAX is too large, then perhaps it should be made smaller?

It's too long if used for ENAMETOOLONG.  In all other cases, it's
okay to have a large value.

I don't know why did DJ define PATH_MAX to be 512 -- perhaps Posix
states that as a minimum?