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

[Lionel Elie Mamane]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 12:06:19PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> 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.

I have repeatedly heard that this value must be set by include'ing
/usr/include/limits.h (or whatever) if the system _has_ such a
limit. If the system has no such limit (such as e.g. GNU/Hurd) and can
handle arbitrarily long filepaths, then it must be not set.

-- 
Lionel