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

[Florian Weimer]

* Jon Bright:

> Florian Weimer wrote:
>> If the limit does not exisit, _POSIX_PATH_MAX is probably undefined,
>> too.  POSIX does not require an upper bound on the path length.
>
> Does it also not require _POSIX_PATH_MAX to be defined?  

Ah, I was wrong.  _POSIX_PATH_MAX is the minimal value of PATH_MAX
(and its pathconf equivalent).

> if it's assuming that this is the most memory it needs for all file
> names in the directory, it's broken anyway:
>
> ----------------
> NOTES
>       Files  with  name  lengths  longer than the value returned for
>       name equal to _PC_NAME_MAX may exist in the given directory.
>
>       Some returned values may be huge; they are not suitable for
>       allocating memory.
> ----------------

This advice is quite reasonable.