Re: [Monotone-devel] [bug #30065] MAXPATHLEN breaks builds on GNU/Hurd

[Zack Weinberg]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Francis Russell
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> I guess that means if it's broken it won't have any bad effects :)
> More seriously, perhaps it should be removed entirely then? I note that
> grepping the source shows multiple references to AF_LOCAL and there
> appears to be a reference to some type of 'local:' URL scheme?
> Presumably monotone did support this at some point?

IIRC we *wanted* to support that -- if only because then the test
suite could use it; there are some contexts, notably some ill-defined
subset of the Debian build farm, where the testsuite can't open
network sockets even on the loopback interface, so we can't actually
test the networking -- but we never finished the project.  I got
sidetracked on trying to replace netxx with libevent, and then I
stopped having time to hack on monotone. :-/

zw