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| author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2002-10-11 05:48:26 +0300 |
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| committer | hv <hv@crypt.org> | 2002-10-17 13:37:04 +0000 |
| commit | 09448d78b3a7197d822f3a4cddd3020b529656e9 (patch) | |
| tree | b73666270035630937d25bb21773c62568065a96 /perl.h | |
| parent | d1e2299c1c3e13c365c4beee74f1481ec4de334a (diff) | |
| download | perl-09448d78b3a7197d822f3a4cddd3020b529656e9.tar.gz | |
definition of MAXPATHLEN
Subject: [PATCH] standard lawyerism
Message-ID: <20021010234825.GM292305@lyta.hut.fi>
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@18025
Diffstat (limited to 'perl.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | perl.h | 13 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
@@ -1972,18 +1972,21 @@ typedef struct clone_params CLONE_PARAMS; # ifdef PATH_MAX # ifdef _POSIX_PATH_MAX # if PATH_MAX > _POSIX_PATH_MAX -/* MAXPATHLEN is supposed to include the final null character, - * as opposed to PATH_MAX and _POSIX_PATH_MAX. */ -# define MAXPATHLEN (PATH_MAX+1) +/* POSIX 1990 (and pre) was ambiguous about whether PATH_MAX + * included the null byte or not. Later amendments of POSIX, + * XPG4, the Austin Group, and the Single UNIX Specification + * all explicitly include the null byte in the PATH_MAX. + * Ditto for _POSIX_PATH_MAX. */ +# define MAXPATHLEN PATH_MAX # else -# define MAXPATHLEN (_POSIX_PATH_MAX+1) +# define MAXPATHLEN _POSIX_PATH_MAX # endif # else # define MAXPATHLEN (PATH_MAX+1) # endif # else # ifdef _POSIX_PATH_MAX -# define MAXPATHLEN (_POSIX_PATH_MAX+1) +# define MAXPATHLEN _POSIX_PATH_MAX # else # define MAXPATHLEN 1024 /* Err on the large side. */ # endif |