On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 at 10:06, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Hi Reuben,
>
> > Unfortunately, this doesn't help, because pathconf is not present on
> mingw.
>
> Then use some fallback, e.g. 256 or PATH_MAX.
>
> > So the best I can do is #define _POSIX_ to get the value of NAME_MAX that
> > it has.
>
> Speak
Hi Reuben,
> Unfortunately, this doesn't help, because pathconf is not present on mingw.
Then use some fallback, e.g. 256 or PATH_MAX.
> So the best I can do is #define _POSIX_ to get the value of NAME_MAX that
> it has.
Speaking for Gnulib, we cannot support _POSIX_ on mingw. This macro modifi
Reuben Thomas wrote:
> Having looked into this, it seems that the same issues apply to PATH_MAX,
> yet gnulib has a pathmax module to define PATH_MAX. What's different in
> that case?
Most systems have a PATH_MAX, only the Hurd doesn't.
Whereas only few systems have a NAME_MAX (musl libc, Cygwin,
On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 at 00:16, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 at 00:14, Bruno Haible wrote:
>
>> Hi Reuben,
>>
>> > NAME_MAX is defined in limits.h.
>>
>> No. POSIX [1] specifies that it may be omitted from , and
>> that pathconf (_PC_NAME_MAX) is the right way to access the maximum
>>
On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 at 00:14, Bruno Haible wrote:
>
> I don't see anything Gnulib should do here.
>
Having looked into this, it seems that the same issues apply to PATH_MAX,
yet gnulib has a pathmax module to define PATH_MAX. What's different in
that case?
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On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 at 00:14, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Hi Reuben,
>
> > NAME_MAX is defined in limits.h.
>
> No. POSIX [1] specifies that it may be omitted from , and
> that pathconf (_PC_NAME_MAX) is the right way to access the maximum
> length of a file name component. [2]
>
Ah, thanks for setting
Hi Reuben,
> NAME_MAX is defined in limits.h.
No. POSIX [1] specifies that it may be omitted from , and
that pathconf (_PC_NAME_MAX) is the right way to access the maximum
length of a file name component. [2]
> So my question is: is there something gnulib can/should do here?
I don't see anythin
NAME_MAX is defined in limits.h.
And indeed it is there on Mingw, but guarded by the Windows-specific
non-standard macro _POSIX_.
I found this suggestion that Windows system headers have not used _POSIX_
since MSVC 2013:
https://sourceforge.net/p/mingw-w64/mailman/message/33014416/
However, the
