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From: Aled Morris <aledm@routers.co.uk>
Subject: Re: kern/8165: minor inconsistency in dirent.h
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The following reply was made to PR kern/8165; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Aled Morris <aledm@routers.co.uk>
To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: kern/8165: minor inconsistency in dirent.h
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 23:17:53 +0100 (BST)

 On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Bruce Evans wrote:
 
 >>>Fix:
 >>	
 >>to sys/dirent.h add #include <sys/syslimits.h>
 >>and change "#define MAXNAMLEN 255" to "#define MAXNAMLEN NAME_MAX"
 >
 >This would pollute <dirent.h> some more and is not permitted in the
 >_POSIX_SOURCE case.
 
 I understand what you're saying, but do you agree that having the same
 constant (i.e. constants with the same meaning) being defined in two
 places is bad?
 
 Aled
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