Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in <20190112141035.ao9y8%[email protected]>: |Eli Zaretskii wrote in <[email protected]>: ||> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2019 14:42:31 +0100 ||> From: Steffen Nurpmeso <[email protected]> ||> Cc: [email protected] ||> ||>|I think FILENAME_MAX is Standard ANSI C symbol, so it can/should be ||> ||> NAME_MAX was also ANSI C by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie. ||> ANSI C says ||> ||> NAME_MAX 14 /* longest filename-component; system-dependent */ || ||No, NAME_MAX is Posix, not ANSI. | |I was citing the ANSI C book of the mentioned, like i have said.
Note that i realize that those great ones bugged it up in that NAME_MAX was the name but a single stale reference to FILENAME_MAX was left there / sneaked in too. That was long after the legendary Ritchie C standard frustration mail <[email protected]> (noalias comments to X3J11; "In discussion with various X3J11 members, I learned that this section is now regarded as an inadvertant error, and no one thinks that it will last in its current form. Nevertheless, it seemed wisest to keep my comments in their original strong form. The intentions of the committee are irrelevant; only their document matters.") --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt) _______________________________________________ bug-groff mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-groff
