Re: P*rtability of dash to legacy systems, such as AT&T Unix PC : 03-name-max

[Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

for your possible interest..

Alain Knaff wrote in
 <60f962f7-1834-45da-bee9-c245c6797f9e@xxxxxxxx>:
 |The third part of the patch set supplies a definition of NAME_MAX
 |where one is lacking.
 ...
 |+#ifndef NAME_MAX
 |+/* NAME_MAX is only used in expand.c to make sure that we have a
 |+   buffer big enough to append the next local file part into during
 |+   globbing. So, in case of doubt, we need NAME_MAX to be bigger
 |+   rather than smaller, in order to prevent buffer overflow */
 |+# define NAME_MAX PATH_MAX
 |+#endif

i have for reasons i have forgotten otherwise

/* POSIX 2008/Cor 1-2013 defines for
 * - _POSIX_PATH_MAX a minimum of 256
 * - _XOPEN_PATH_MAX a minimum of 1024
 * NFS RFC 1094 from March 1989 defines a MAXPATHLEN of 1024, so we really
 * should avoid anything smaller than that! */
#ifndef PATH_MAX
# ifdef MAXPATHLEN
#  define PATH_MAX MAXPATHLEN
# else
#  define PATH_MAX 1024
# endif
#endif
#if PATH_MAX + 0 < 1024
# undef PATH_MAX
# define PATH_MAX 1024
#endif

--steffen
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