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Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 13:33:51 -0500 (EST)
From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: standards/46035: pathchk doesn't understand the new meaning of {PATH_MAX}
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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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