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* Dominic Hargreaves (perlbug-followup@perl.org) [120128 14:22]:
> # New Ticket Created by Dominic Hargreaves
> # Please include the string: [perl #109262]
> # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue.
> # <URL: https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=109262 >
>
> The attached patch addresses a problem reported as
> <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=656869> where, even
> though no limit is defined in GNU/Hurd, MAXPATHLEN is limited to 1024.
>
> Increasing this to 4096 creates parity between GNU/Hurd and
> GNU/Linux. I'd be interested in opinions about whether this is sensible
> to apply.
The C constant _POSIX_PATH_MAX gives the minimal value for PATH_MAX to
be POSIX compliant (now 256, in the earlier posix versions 255)
Does pathconf('/etc',_PC_PATH_MAX) produce a nice value?
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