Alvin wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> FL_PATH_MAX, in filename.H, is defined to be 256. Any particular reason for
> 256? Was it an arbitrary choice or is there some background information
> that dictated 256?

Older systems have a maximum path length of 256 characters.  Newer
systems increase the limit to 1024 characters...

_POSIX_PATH_MAX is 256.

_XOPEN_NAME_MAX is 255.

_XOPEN_PATH_MAX is 1024.

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