From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24791 invoked from network); 9 Aug 2000 17:08:31 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 9 Aug 2000 17:08:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 1982 invoked by alias); 9 Aug 2000 17:08:12 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 12576 Received: (qmail 1975 invoked from network); 9 Aug 2000 17:08:09 -0000 From: "Bart Schaefer" Message-Id: <1000809170712.ZM7673@candle.brasslantern.com> Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 17:07:12 +0000 In-Reply-To: <20000809102501.A24977@dman.com> Comments: In reply to Clint Adams "PATH_MAX vs. _PC_PATH_MAX vs. POSIX (was Re: PATCH: tail-dropping in files module mkdir)" (Aug 9, 10:25am) References: <20000804204021.A7925@dman.com> <1000804070216.ZM23696@candle.brasslantern.com> <20000804091955.A4368@dman.com> <000804111549.ZM28988@candle.brasslantern.com> <20000804205227.B7925@dman.com> <1000805044825.ZM29238@candle.brasslantern.com> <20000807140445.A15891@dman.com> <000807133944.ZM26497@candle.brasslantern.com> <20000808074007.A7961@dman.com> <000808144749.ZM7078@candle.brasslantern.com> <20000809102501.A24977@dman.com> X-Mailer: Z-Mail (5.0.0 30July97) To: Clint Adams Subject: Re: PATH_MAX vs. _PC_PATH_MAX vs. POSIX (was Re: PATCH: tail-dropping in files module mkdir) Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Aug 9, 10:25am, Clint Adams wrote: } } Well, I've seen two or three manpages that list _PC_PATH_MAX as being } "relative path from cwd", and nothing that claims that PATH_MAX is anything } more meaningful than "maximum path length". I've posted something to comp.unix.programmer and comp.std.unix. I'll pass along any useful responses. -- Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.brasslantern.com Zsh: http://www.zsh.org | PHPerl Project: http://phperl.sourceforge.net