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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern init_main.c
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>>> Can we have a semicolon for the path separator before people start using
>>> this?  We are not MSDOS.
>>
>> I chose to use a semicolon for consistency with other similar
>> variables (e.g. module_path).
>
>Hmm.  I thought that by now people would have realised that this was a
>typo on bde's part.  bde sent a retraction out shortly later, but
>nobody seems to have read it.  FWIW, the semicolon is what MS-DOS uses
>in order not to be too UNIX-like.  Do I need to say we should be using
>colons here?

module_path (linker_path) is wrong too, but has been around too long to
just change.

Related bogons: linker_path[] has size MAXPATHLEN + 1 (enough for just
one pathname of maximal length, plus one byte wasted).  init_path[]
has size MAXPATHLEN (enough for just one pathname of maximal length).
corefilename[] has size MAXPATHLEN+1 (enough for just one pathname of
maximal length and one byte of format specification).  MAXPATHLEN has
very little to do with the size required.

Bruce


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