Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 14:48:57 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/calendar io.c Message-ID: <200103011948.OAA03017@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <200103011458.f21Ewrx02627@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> References: <imp@FreeBSD.org> <200103010547.f215lUw98788@freefall.freebsd.org> <200103011458.f21Ewrx02627@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
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<<On Thu, 01 Mar 2001 14:58:53 +0000, Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> said:
> Does anybody (Garrett, Bruce?) know definitively which of the various
> *LEN variables include NUL ?
No. That's why they should not be used. Use the POSIX-standard *_MAX
variables instead.
> MAXHOSTNAMELEN:
Hopefully this one will be in the next POSIX. The current draft
spells it `255'. I have proposed {HOST_NAME_MAX} which would
definitively include the terminating '\0'.
> MAXNAMELEN:
> intro(2) suggests that this doesn't include space for a NUL - seems
> right.
Use {NAME_MAX}.
> MAXPATHLEN
> intro(2) suggests that this does include space for a NUL - seems right.
Use {PATH_MAX}.
-GAWollman
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