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Article #801Re: FILENAME_MAX & _POSIX_PATH_MAX relationship?
From: Chuck Karish
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1991 23:46
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1991 23:46
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Submitted-by: karish@mindcraft.com (Chuck Karish) In article <127638@uunet.UU.NET> steve@unidata.ucar.edu (Steve Emmerson) writes: >Would someone who knows please tell me the relationship between the >Standard C macro FILENAME_MAX and the POSIX macro _POSIX_PATH_MAX. > >In particular, should they be the same, or should FILENAME_MAX >correspond instead to _POSIX_NAME_MAX. _POSIX_PATH_MAX is more appropriate. Standard C has no notion of a path prefix. Clause 4.9.1 of both the Standard and its rationale tells us that a buffer of FILENAME_MAX characters should hold the entire file name (what POSIX.1 would term the 'path'). Chuck Karish karish@mindcraft.com Mindcraft, Inc. (415) 323-9000 Volume-Number: Volume 23, Number 26
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!uunet.UU.NET!sef From: karish@mindcraft.com (Chuck Karish) Newsgroups: comp.std.unix Subject: Re: FILENAME_MAX & _POSIX_PATH_MAX relationship? Message-ID: <128263@uunet.UU.NET> Date: 9 Apr 91 23:46:23 GMT References: <127638@uunet.UU.NET> Sender: usenet@uunet.UU.NET Organization: Mindcraft, Inc. Lines: 19 Approved: sef@uunet.uu.net (Moderator, Sean Eric Fagan - comp.std.unix) Nntp-Posting-Host: uunet.uu.net X-Submissions: std-unix@uunet.uu.net Originator: sef@uunet.UU.NET