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To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com>
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/make arch.c main.c 
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Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 14:32:19 -0700
From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
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In message <20010301145142.A20573@hamlet.nectar.com> "Jacques A. Vidrine" writes:
: Note that {PATH_MAX} _does not_ include a terminating null, and that
: in sys/param.h we define MAXPATHLEN = PATH_MAX.  A quick look through
: the sources reveals lots & lots of `bugs' due to this.

It does include the terminating NUL character, at least in FreeBSD.
PATH_MAX is 1024 and the longest path you can have is 1023 bytes.
Garrett sent me verbage, which I included in another message, that
says that IEEE clarified this to include the terminating NUL.

Warner

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