On 27/04/15 09:13, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Sat, 25 Apr 2015 22:33:28 +0200 > Felix Janda <felix.ja...@posteo.de> wrote: > >> They are equivalent but the former is more common. PATH_MAX is >> specified by POSIX and needs <limits.h> while MAXPATHLEN has BSD >> origin and needs <sys/param.h>. >> >> PATH_MAX has already been in use in misc/lnstat.h. >> >> Signed-off-by: Felix Janda <felix.ja...@posteo.de> > > Iproute2 is intended for use on Linux. > It makes more sense to align with Posix than using leftover > BSD stuff. Therefore I don't see any point in doing this.
My reading from Felix's commit message is that he is attempting to do exactly that: conform to POSIX rather than BSD, which seems to be the direction you are also suggesting here. -- Florian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
