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- Submitted-by: willcox@urbana.mcd.mot.com (David A Willcox)
-
- >Would someone who knows please tell me the relationship between the
- >Standard C macro FILENAME_MAX and the POSIX macro _POSIX_PATH_MAX.
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- Since FILENAME_MAX is the longest possible filename string that can be
- passed to fopen() and the like, it should be a value no smaller than
- the largest possible value for PATH_MAX on your system. It mustn't
- ever be smaller than _POSIX_PATH_MAX, and would only be that small on
- an implementation that only supported the minimum value for PATH_MAX
- required by POSIX.
-
- To quote from the C standard, FILENAME_MAX:
-
- ... expands to an integral constant expression that is the size needed
- for an array of char large enough to hold the longest file name
- string that the implementation guarantees can be opened. [There's
- a footnote saying that this doesn't mean that just any string this
- long is a valid file name.]
-
- Since the C standard does not have any concept of directories, "file
- name" in this context clearly corresponds to a POSIX path, not an
- individual file name.
-
- (Standard disclaimer stuff. Motorola and POSIX disavow all knowledge of
- my actions.)
-
- David A. Willcox "Just say 'NO' to universal drug testing"
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- Volume-Number: Volume 23, Number 25
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