Hi Amos, If I remember right, MAXHOSTNAMELEN and MAXPATHLEN are not definend on Windows and some _POSIX defines are available only building in POSIX mode (Squid is build in native mode because win32 API are not exposed in POSIX mode).
>From limits.h: #ifdef _POSIX_ #define _POSIX_ARG_MAX 4096 #define _POSIX_CHILD_MAX 6 #define _POSIX_LINK_MAX 8 #define _POSIX_MAX_CANON 255 #define _POSIX_MAX_INPUT 255 #define _POSIX_NAME_MAX 14 #define _POSIX_NGROUPS_MAX 0 #define _POSIX_OPEN_MAX 16 #define _POSIX_PATH_MAX 255 #define _POSIX_PIPE_BUF 512 #define _POSIX_SSIZE_MAX 32767 #define _POSIX_STREAM_MAX 8 #define _POSIX_TZNAME_MAX 3 #define ARG_MAX 14500 /* 16k heap, minus overhead */ #define LINK_MAX 1024 #define MAX_CANON _POSIX_MAX_CANON #define MAX_INPUT _POSIX_MAX_INPUT #define NAME_MAX 255 #define NGROUPS_MAX 16 #define OPEN_MAX 32 #define PATH_MAX 512 #define PIPE_BUF _POSIX_PIPE_BUF #define SSIZE_MAX _POSIX_SSIZE_MAX #define STREAM_MAX 20 #define TZNAME_MAX 10 #endif /* POSIX */ Regards Guido Guido Serassio Acme Consulting S.r.l. Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Via Lucia Savarino, 1 10098 - Rivoli (TO) - ITALY Tel. : +39.011.9530135 Fax. : +39.011.9781115 Email: [email protected] WWW: http://www.acmeconsulting.it > -----Messaggio originale----- > Da: Amos Jeffries [mailto:[email protected]] > Inviato: sabato 21 novembre 2009 6.55 > A: Squid Developers > Oggetto: [PATCH] replace RFC2181 magic numbers with POSIX definitions > > The maximum length of host names is provided by POSIX-compliant > compilers. MAXHOSTNAMELEN is a standard definition relative to those > values so we do not need the magic numbers. The actual RC2181 texts > describe the same limits defined by POSIX IEEE Std 1003.1. > > There are some slightly-broken systems which use an older POSIX standard > with much smaller values. But I feel we should obey those system limits > and not pass their kernels larger chunks of data. > > This makes use of the standard values instead of our magic numbers. > > Votes? > > Amos
