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On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 02:42:17PM -0800, Mark Overmeer via RT wrote:
> * Dominic Hargreaves (perlbug-followup@perl.org) [120128 14:22]:
> > 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?
No, on GNU/Hurd 'POSIX::pathconf( "/etc", &POSIX::_PC_PATH_MAX )'
returns undef.
There is some more about this issue generally at
<http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/community/gsoc/project_ideas/maxpath.html>
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