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Date:      Tue, 24 Oct 2006 15:56:21 +0000
From:      Thomas Quinot <thomas@FreeBSD.org>
To:        bug-followup@freebsd.org
Cc:        FreeBSD-standards@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: standards/104743: Wrong values for _POSIX_ minimal limits
Message-ID:  <20061024155621.GA97295@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20061024104712.890B35C68E@melamine.cuivre.fr.eu.org>
References:  <20061024104712.890B35C68E@melamine.cuivre.fr.eu.org>

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On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 12:47:12PM +0200, Thomas Quinot wrote:

> 	The FreeBSD version of standard C header file <limits.h> is not
> 	conforming to the Single UNIX Specification version 2.

... but most of them actually *are* conformant with the later revision
SUSv3 (POSIX 1003.1 TC1).

> -#define	_POSIX_CHILD_MAX	25
> -#define	_POSIX_NGROUPS_MAX	8
> -#define	_POSIX_OPEN_MAX		20
> -#define	_POSIX_PATH_MAX		256
> -#define	_POSIX_TZNAME_MAX	6

These are actually correct with respect to the later specification.

> -#define	_POSIX_AIO_LISTIO_MAX	16
> +#define	_POSIX_AIO_LISTIO_MAX	2

This one is still unclear to me as IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 still lists
the value 2.




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