Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch on windows?

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

>>>>> "John" == John Meinel <address@hidden> writes:

    John> Well, I just did a check on the MAC here in the office. And
    John> when using Journaled HFS+, I made a path with > 900
    John> characters and had no problems.  When I went > ~1000 the
    John> shell started complaining that getcwd "Cannot access parent
    John> directories: Result too large".

On the Mac it's 1024, cf. the macro PATH_MAX #define'ed in
<sys/syslimits.h>.

This is a POSIX limit, I'm pretty sure.  To conform to POSIX, the
value must be set by #include'ing /usr/include/limits.h, I believe.

Possibly at the upper end, PATH_MAX == 4096 in Linux 2.4.  IIRC, POSIX
allows it to be as small as 255 (many systems will #define
_POSIX_PATH_MAX 255 for this reason; the Mac is one).

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