The following reply was made to PR misc/184340; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Brooks Davis <[email protected]> To: David Cundiff <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] 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 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
