13 Sep
2002
13 Sep
'02
3:13 a.m.
Well, I don't think it's intended to enforce a bound on the maximum length of any possible path, but rather the maximum size of a pathname that you can pass as an argument to stuff like open() or stat(). I formed this impression by reading the sections on limits.h and pathconf() in the Open Group (aka POSIX, more or less) specs at http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/toc.htm
I haven't read that bit of that document that closely :-) David -- David Laight: david(a)l8s.co.uk