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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Missing comment closure in 4.05 /usr/include/limits.h
- Message-ID: <nniqk7o@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 25 Jul 92 03:53:12 GMT
- References: <Brs4so.LCt@syd.dms.CSIRO.AU> <nketm60@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
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- In <nketm60@zuni.esd.sgi.com> olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
-
- | In <Brs4so.LCt@syd.dms.CSIRO.AU> gil@swifty.dap.CSIRO.AU (Gil Webster) writes:
- |
- | | In our 4.05 installation, line 92 of /usr/include/limits.h is faulty.
- | | The closing comment is missing on this line, thus the next
- | | definition is commented out.
- | |
- | | #if (defined(__EXTENSIONS__) && !defined(_POSIX_SOURCE))
- | |
- | | #define ARG_MAX 5120 /* max length of arguments to exec
- | | #define CHILD_MAX 25 /* max # of processes per user id */
- |
- | Your file is truncated for some reason. It is fine on all the 4.0.5
- | stock systems I looked at, and the file is 127 lines long.
-
- Sometimes I just can't read what is written. *ALL* 4.0.5 systems
- have this bug. Enough people pointed out to me that I had misread
- what was posted that it sunk in.
-
- Nothing in the entire SGI source tree uses that define (not very
- surprisingly, since it is a guaranteed lower limit, and doesn't
- match any system we ship), and so we missed it.
-
- It was already fixed in the source for the next major release.
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- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
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