The lack of UNIX_PATH_MAX on sys/un.h
Florian Weimer
fweimer@redhat.com
Thu Dec 7 21:50:00 GMT 2017
On 12/07/2017 10:33 PM, omri wrote:
> The change to use sys/un.h is fairly trivial but I was using the UNIX_PATH_MAX
> definition.
>
> Is there any reason this isn't defined in glibc? are there any reservations from adding it?
I don't think it is in any standard.
UNIX_PATH_MAX is also a misnomer, it's just the size of the defined
array in struct sockaddr_un. The actual kernel limit is somewhere
around PATH_MAX.
Thanks,
Florian
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