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- From: Don_Lewine@dgc.ceo.dg.com
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- IEEE Std 1003.1-1988 paragraph 5.7.1.2 note 5 describes the value
- returned by pathconf() when _PC_PATH_MAX is used as an argument as,
- "The maximum length of a relative pathname when the specified
- directory is the working directory."
-
- I have tried this on several POSIX.1 systems. None of them seem to
- enforce the maximum. In fact they all return a constant (say, 1024)
- even if the path given to pathconf() is already longer than that.
-
- Is this conforming behavior?
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- If it is conforming, how should a portable application determine the
- longest pathname a user can specify?
-
- What about _PC_NAME_MAX? May readdir() return a longer name than the
- value returned by pathconf() for that directory?
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- Volume-Number: Volume 21, Number 63
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