On Sun, Dec 27, 1998 at 04:22:05PM -0500, Roland McGrath wrote: > > > Notice that neither PATH_MAX nor OPEN_MAX are defined in Hurd, too. > > > > Why? > > Because there are no limits. Aside from runtime memory availability, there > is no limit whatsoever on the length of a file name imposed by the system > architecture (individual filesystems may have limits, which pathconf > reports). The only limit on open file descriptors is the soft resource > limit settable with setrlimit(RLIM_NOFILE).
Okay, understood. At a later step, we may want to add code for all suboptimal programs. For now, let me ask a further question: What about MAXHOSTNAMELEN? If there is no fixed value for this, how can I determine the value at run time? Thanks, Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU/Linux finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
