Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 23:30:01 GMT From: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: misc/184340: PATH_MAX not interoperable with Linux Message-ID: <201311272330.rARNU1Rg003138@freefall.freebsd.org>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
The following reply was made to PR misc/184340; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> To: David Cundiff <dcundiff@a2hosting.com> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: misc/184340: PATH_MAX not interoperable with Linux Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 17:26:17 -0600 On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 11:03:31PM +0000, David Cundiff wrote: > Change PATH_MAX in kernel to 4096 from 1024. Should be harmless and will fix the issue in any program that uses PATH_MAX from the kernel headers. Also would allow longer 32-bit unicode paths. Blindly changing PATH_MAX would be far from harmless. It would bloat many internal structures and break ABIs and thus could not be done on a stable branch without quite a bit of work. This is probalby worth fixing for 11.0, ideally by removing the limit entierly as suggested by POSIX. -- Brooks
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?201311272330.rARNU1Rg003138>