Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 13:33:51 -0500 (EST)
From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To: standards@FreeBSD.org
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: standards/46035: pathchk doesn't understand the new meaning of {PATH_MAX}
Message-ID: <200212061833.gB6IXp31062861@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200212061823.gB6INMg5062746@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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<<On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 13:23:22 -0500 (EST), Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> said:
> pathchk was never updated for the change in {PATH_MAX}
> semantics made by 1003.1-2001. {PATH_MAX} (and thus,
> {_POSIX_PATH_MAX}) now include the trailing null character.
> Thus, pathchk is off by one.
The manual page also needs to be updated.
-GAWollman
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