Can you let me know where the build fails? We are well aware of the PATH_MAX issue and have avoided it at most places as well as mitigated at others. So this looks like it went overlooked. Smells a bit like imfile, but I would like to know for sure before applying patches.
Thx, Rainer El lun, 27 sept 2021 a las 15:34, Andrea Monaco via rsyslog (<[email protected]>) escribió: > > > Hello, > > > on my GNU/Hurd system, running make on rsyslog-8.2108.0 fails, after a > successful configure, because of undefined PATH_MAX and MAXPATHLEN. > > GNU/Hurd doesn't use such macros, by design choice, to avoid imposing > arbitrary limits. Also note that POSIX allows those macros, but doesn't > require them. > > Additionally, many common uses of PATH_MAX and similar are incorrect: > for example, the Linux kernel does not really enforce a limit on path > lengths, but only on paths to be passed to certain system calls; see > https://insanecoding.blogspot.com/2007/11/pathmax-simply-isnt.html for > example. > > > Perhaps rsyslog could detect missing PATH_MAX at configure time, but > that's not really a solution; I think the only option is to avoid its > use entirely, resorting to dinamically allocated buffers instead. > > I could try that, as there are few instances to replace in rsyslog tree. > > > > Let me know, > > Andrea Monaco > _______________________________________________ > rsyslog mailing list > https://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog > http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ > What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards > NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of > sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T > LIKE THAT. _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list https://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T LIKE THAT.
