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| author | Keith Marshall <keithmarshall@@users.sf.net> | 2010-08-18 01:18:21 +0400 |
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| committer | Keith Marshall <keithmarshall@@users.sf.net> | 2010-08-18 01:18:21 +0400 |
| commit | 0f0a0b736106aeb16378929be874149f50041e85 (patch) | |
| tree | ae20fa25ca3e557bd71028ed0768616555fa28fa /winsup/mingw | |
| parent | adb4e0f3deb98aded183b9691005c8cc0ea76203 (diff) | |
Make PATH_MAX consistent with MAX_PATH
Diffstat (limited to 'winsup/mingw')
| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/mingw/ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/mingw/include/limits.h | 7 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/mingw/ChangeLog b/winsup/mingw/ChangeLog index 5f106e6ef..e90df7c54 100644 --- a/winsup/mingw/ChangeLog +++ b/winsup/mingw/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2010-08-17 Keith Marshall <keithmarshall@users.sourceforge.net> + + * include/limits.h (PATH_MAX): Make it agree with Microsoft's + semantically identical MAX_PATH; correct value is 260. + 2010-07-25 Keith Marshall <keithmarshall@users.sourceforge.net> Accept that mingwrt headers are not guaranteed to precede GCC's in the diff --git a/winsup/mingw/include/limits.h b/winsup/mingw/include/limits.h index 04f79f58c..96ad26cec 100644 --- a/winsup/mingw/include/limits.h +++ b/winsup/mingw/include/limits.h @@ -25,10 +25,11 @@ * * TODO: NAME_MAX and OPEN_MAX are file system limits or not? Are they the * same as FILENAME_MAX and FOPEN_MAX from stdio.h? - * NOTE: Apparently the actual size of PATH_MAX is 260, but a space is - * required for the NUL. TODO: Test? + * NOTE: PATH_MAX is the POSIX equivalent for Microsoft's MAX_PATH; the two + * are semantically identical, with a limit of 259 characters for the + * path name, plus one for a terminating NUL, for a total of 260. */ -#define PATH_MAX 259 +#define PATH_MAX 260 /* * Characteristics of the char data type. |