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From: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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* Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> [040707 15:25] wrote:
> <<On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 20:47:42 +0000 (UTC), Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.ORG> said:
> 
> >   there's no such define as KERN_NAME_MAX, change to _POSIX_NAME_MAX.
>   
> That is not more correct.
> 
> Actually, it should be documented thus:
> 
> .It Li _PC_NO_TRUNC
> Always returns 1.
> (Included to support software written for previous editions of
> .Tn POSIX . )
> 
> -GAWollman

Whoa....

if _PC_NO_TRUNC returns 1 then an application should assume that
names longer than 14 characters (_POSIX_NAME_MAX) are truncated???

But that's always set?

I'm confused.

Can you suggest better wording?  Perhaps (if I'm understanding properly):

"Always returns 1, but should be ignored."

?

Because we sure as hell don't truncate names 14 characters. :)

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