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* Dominic Hargreaves (dom@earth.li) [120128 23:09]:
> On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 02:42:17PM -0800, Mark Overmeer via RT wrote:
> > * Dominic Hargreaves (perlbug-followup@perl.org) [120128 14:22]:
>
> No, on GNU/Hurd 'POSIX::pathconf( "/etc", &POSIX::_PC_PATH_MAX )'
> returns undef.
>
> <http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/community/gsoc/project_ideas/maxpath.html>
Not only PATH_MAX, but also many other global constants do not really
make sense. Especially the ancient ones. Pathconf() would stand a better
chance, because the length is obviously file-system dependent. If I
read the Hurd idea about it, I would say that it supports
pathconf($fn, _PC_PATH_MAX)
returning "undef" as "unlimited".
You like to enlarge the default for MAXPATHLEN to an other artificial
value, where also a known PATH_MAX is probably too small. So, why not
remove the attempt to get a realistic value from the OS here?
#define ALWAYS_LARGE_ENOUGH 32768
Char *bufnext, *bufend, patbuf[ALWAYS_LARGE_ENOUGH];
bufend = bufnext + ALWAYS_LARGE_ENOUGH - 1;
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