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Subject: Re: For masochists: the leap o faith
From: Robert Collins <rbcollins AT cygwin DOT com>
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Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 07:58:36 +1100

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On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 21:56, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 08:10:08AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> > We have two choices (no particular order of preference):
> > a) make MAX_PATH and posix friends the maximum length path cygwin will
> > accept/return. Return ENAMETOOLONG on path calls on win9x, or winnt
> > FAT[32] calls. Update pathconf to return appropriate values.
> > b) blow away MAX_PATH and MAXPATHLEN so that programs using cygwin
> > fallback to pathconf, or 'good enough for me' static arrays.  Update
> > pathconf to return appropriate values.
>=20
> Well, I guess you meant PATH_MAX here. =20

Yes, of course.

> I would prefer to change PATH_MAX and MAXPATHLEN to an arbitrary big
> value as, e. g. the same as on Linux, 4096, or even the biggest possible
> plus one: 32768.  The latter is probably the better value.  So my choice
> is a)

Ok. What should we set CYG_MAX_PATH to initially then? I think we should
start at 4K, until we've seen whether there are any stack size issues.

Rob
--=20
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