Hi, Am Sonntag, den 05.07.2009, 12:27 +0200 schrieb Albin Tonnerre: > On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 10:38:45PM +0200, Manuel Menal wrote : > > evas uses the PATH_MAX constant, which is optional on POSIX and undefined > > on GNU/Hurd. > > Does Hurd enjoy not defining widely-used constants just because they're > optional, or are there actual technical reasons for this ? If so, I'd like to > know what they are.
The reason is, IIRC, that there is no maximal path length in hurd – so what could possibly be the value of such a constant? Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nome...@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nome...@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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