Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 11:20:43 +0100 From: Johan Karlsson <johan@FreeBSD.org> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/realpath realpath.c Message-ID: <20021219102042.GB36357@numeri.campus.luth.se> In-Reply-To: <20021219205223.D30429-100000@gamplex.bde.org> References: <20021219081755.GA35556@numeri.campus.luth.se> <20021219205223.D30429-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
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On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 21:00 (+1100) +0000, Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Johan Karlsson wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 12:01 (+1100) +0000, Bruce Evans wrote:
> > > On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Johan Karlsson wrote:
> > > > - use MAXPATHLEN per realpath(3)
> > >
> > > This is sort of backwards. realpath(3) is standard in POSIX.1.2001 and
> > > spells the limit {PATH_MAX}. MAXPATHLEN has the advantage of being
>
> > My commit made the code consistent with the manpage for realpath(3) which
> > says to use MAXPATHLEN. If that is wrong then we should change
> > the manpage to say PATH_MAX.
> >
> > Should I revert this and change the manpage?
>
> Up to you. Lots of things should be changed to say something like
In that case I will leave it as is for now. If/when we change the
manpages, this can be revisited.
/Johan K
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