Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 14:05:07 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Ighighi <ighighi@gmail.com> Subject: Re: POSIXfy readlink() call Message-ID: <200905111405.07289.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <46FDBAFC.1010000@gmail.com> References: <46FDBAFC.1010000@gmail.com>
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On Friday 28 September 2007 10:39:56 pm Ighighi wrote: > The POXIX prototype for readlink(2) is: > ssize_t readlink(const char *restrict path, char *restrict buf, size_t > bufsize); It can't simply be corrected as it would change the ABI and thus requires a new system call, etc. However, do you really expect a symlink to be longer than 2^31 on a 64-bit machine? -- John Baldwin
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