PATH_MAX and FILENAME_MAX

Fri Jan 26 05:52:00 GMT 2001

Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
>> Doing something different, this caught my eyes:
>> $ grep PATH_MAX /usr/include/*.h
> /usr/include/limits.h:#define PATH_MAX (260 - 1 /*NUL*/)
> /usr/include/limits.h:#define _POSIX_PATH_MAX 255
> /usr/include/stdio.h:#define FILENAME_MAX 1024 /* must be <= PATH_MAX
> <sys/syslimits.h> */
> /usr/include/stdio.h:#define L_tmpnam 1024 /* XXX must be ==
> PATH_MAX */
>> So are comments misleading or FILENAME_MAX (and L_tmpnam) should be changed?
>
The comments are correct. This is a newlib issue. I've CC'ed the
newlib list in my response.
Earnie.
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