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Diffstat (limited to 'winsup/cygwin/winsup.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/cygwin/winsup.h | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/winsup.h b/winsup/cygwin/winsup.h index 952292862..dbb08e09e 100644 --- a/winsup/cygwin/winsup.h +++ b/winsup/cygwin/winsup.h @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ extern unsigned long cygwin_inet_addr (const char *cp); /* Note that MAX_PATH is defined in the windows headers */ /* There is also PATH_MAX and MAXPATHLEN. - PATH_MAX is from Posix and does *not* include the trailing NUL. + PATH_MAX is from Posix and does include the trailing NUL. MAXPATHLEN is from Unix. Thou shalt use CYG_MAX_PATH throughout. It avoids the NUL vs no-NUL @@ -76,6 +76,15 @@ extern unsigned long cygwin_inet_addr (const char *cp); #define CYG_MAX_PATH (MAX_PATH) +/* There's no define for the maximum path length the NT kernel can handle. + That's why we define our own to use in path length test and for path + buffer sizes. As MAX_PATH and PATH_MAX, this is defined including the + trailing 0. Internal buffers and internal path routines should use + NT_MAX_PATH. PATH_MAX as defined in limits.h is the maximum length of + application provided path strings we handle. */ +/* FIXME: The name is preliminary and TBD. */ +#define NT_MAX_PATH 32768 + #ifdef __cplusplus extern const char case_folded_lower[]; |