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-