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Date:      Tue, 24 Oct 2006 16:00:48 GMT
From:      Thomas Quinot <thomas@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: standards/104743: Wrong values for _POSIX_ minimal limits
Message-ID:  <200610241600.k9OG0mLx097633@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR standards/104743; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Thomas Quinot <thomas@FreeBSD.org>
To: bug-followup@freebsd.org
Cc: FreeBSD-standards@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: standards/104743: Wrong values for _POSIX_ minimal limits
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 15:56:21 +0000

 On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 12:47:12PM +0200, Thomas Quinot wrote:
 
 > 	The FreeBSD version of standard C header file <limits.h> is not
 > 	conforming to the Single UNIX Specification version 2.
 
 ... but most of them actually *are* conformant with the later revision
 SUSv3 (POSIX 1003.1 TC1).
 
 > -#define	_POSIX_CHILD_MAX	25
 > -#define	_POSIX_NGROUPS_MAX	8
 > -#define	_POSIX_OPEN_MAX		20
 > -#define	_POSIX_PATH_MAX		256
 > -#define	_POSIX_TZNAME_MAX	6
 
 These are actually correct with respect to the later specification.
 
 > -#define	_POSIX_AIO_LISTIO_MAX	16
 > +#define	_POSIX_AIO_LISTIO_MAX	2
 
 This one is still unclear to me as IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 still lists
 the value 2.
 



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