On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 12:11:32AM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
>
> On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Ray Lai wrote:
>
> > What are the proper uses of MAXNAMLEN, NAME_MAX, and FILENAME_MAX?
> > Do they represent filenames with or without paths? Do they include
> > the terminating null or not? The source seems inconsistent:
>
> Posix says: "{NAME_MAX} Maximum number of bytes in a filename (not
> including terminating null). Minimum Acceptable Value:
> {_POSIX_NAME_MAX}"
>
> The other two are non-posix:
>
> MAXNAMLEN is file name length, not a path, excluding the NUL byte.
>
> FILENAME_MAX is from ANSI C, in practise it's value is equal to the
> posix PATH_MAX, which is the maximum length of a path name _including_
> NUL.
>
> In practice, a lot of unix programs use MAXPATHLEN, which is in
> general equal to the posix PATH_MAX.
I keep forgetting to, but thanks to everybody for answering my
questions.
-Ray-
