[PATCH] _POSIX_PATH_MAX

Thorsten Kukuk kukuk@suse.de
Mon Dec 10 06:41:00 GMT 2001


Hi,

the Austin Draft revert the change about "increase _POSIX_PATH_MAX
to 256". Here is a patch to revert the change AJ made over 1 year
ago. Please apply to cvs.

  Thanks,
   Thorsten
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2001-12-10  Thorsten Kukuk  <kukuk@suse.de>

	* posix/bits/posix1_lim.h (_POSIX_PATH_MAX): Decrease to 255 in
        accordance with Austin Draft.

--- posix/bits/posix1_lim.h
+++ posix/bits/posix1_lim.h	2001/12/10 09:39:49
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
 #define	_POSIX_NAME_MAX		14
 
 /* Number of bytes in a pathname.  */
-#define	_POSIX_PATH_MAX		256
+#define	_POSIX_PATH_MAX		255
 
 /* Number of bytes than can be written atomically to a pipe.  */
 #define	_POSIX_PIPE_BUF		512



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