Re: [Monotone-devel] Monotone 0.16 bug with filesystems

[Florian Weimer]

* Jon Bright:

> I'd guess this means the code should look like:
>
>   long path_max;
>       errno = 0;
>       path_max = ::pathconf( ".", _PC_PATH_MAX );
>       if ( path_max < 1 && errno != 0 )
>         boost::throw_exception(
>           filesystem_error( "boost::filesystem::current_path",
>             "_PC_PATH_MAX < 1" ) );
>       else if ( path_max < 1 )
>         path_max = _POSIX_PATH_MAX;

If the limit does not exisit, _POSIX_PATH_MAX is probably undefined,
too.  POSIX does not require an upper bound on the path length.