>I am genuinely surprised that Solaris still has such a >relatively small PATH_MAX. Linux has 4096. Really, there are things you cannot change because of binary compatibility. PATH_MAX is one. Having a 4K path seems rather pointless; the longest path on my system is 225 bytes; a factor of 4 over that borders on the ridiculous. >Like other arbitrary system limits of its ilk, PATH_MAX >is evil, and is one of the more persuasive arguments for >getting rid of the C language and its fixed-size >stack-allocated buffers. > >char path[PATH_MAX]; /* considered harmful */ Evil, yes, but old source code never dies. Casper
