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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>,
	Jan.Djarv@mbox200.swipnet.se, storm@cua.dk, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: New session management patch.
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 16:25:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jeofibq73t.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1020227122210.21923R-100000@is> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 27 Feb 2002 12:23:05 +0200 (IST)")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:

|> On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Richard Stallman wrote:
|> 
|> >     +      if (proglen+len+1 <= MAXPATHLEN)
|> >     +        {
|> >     +          char maybe[MAXPATHLEN+1];
|> > 
|> > That is an arbitrary limit, so please remove it.  openp avoids having
|> > such a limit.
|> 
|> AFAIK, MAXPATHLEN is not an arbitrary limit, it's something specific to 
|> each platform.  It tells how long can a file name be on that system.

No, it's not a system limit as is, it can vary depending on file systems
and directories (at least PATH_MAX can, which is the POSIX equivalent;
MAXPATHLEN is actually pre-POSIX).

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-02-27 15:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-17 19:11 Session management patch, please comment Jan D.
2002-02-19  6:37 ` Richard Stallman
2002-02-19  8:40   ` Kim F. Storm
2002-02-19 20:13     ` Jan D.
2002-02-19 20:12   ` Jan D.
2002-02-19 22:43     ` Kim F. Storm
2002-02-20 20:29       ` Jan Djärv
2002-02-20 22:50         ` Kim F. Storm
2002-02-21 19:57           ` Jan D.
2002-02-21 21:18             ` Kim F. Storm
2002-02-26 22:49               ` New session management patch Jan D.
2002-02-27  5:51                 ` Richard Stallman
2002-02-27 10:23                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-02-27 15:25                     ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2002-02-27 18:11                     ` Colin Walters
2002-02-28  4:08                     ` Richard Stallman
2002-02-27 19:43                   ` Jan D.
2002-02-28 18:22                     ` Richard Stallman
2002-02-28 15:36                   ` Kim F. Storm
2002-03-01  1:11                     ` Richard Stallman
2002-02-22  4:32           ` Session management patch, please comment Richard Stallman
2002-02-20 22:13     ` Richard Stallman
2002-02-21 20:01       ` Jan D.

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