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From: steve@unidata.ucar.edu (Steve Emmerson)
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Subject: FILENAME_MAX & _POSIX_PATH_MAX relationship?
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Submitted-by: steve@unidata.ucar.edu (Steve Emmerson)

Hi,

Would someone who knows please tell me the relationship between the
Standard C macro FILENAME_MAX and the POSIX macro _POSIX_PATH_MAX.

In particular, should they be the same, or should FILENAME_MAX
correspond instead to _POSIX_NAME_MAX.

I ask because HP-UX has FILENAME_MAX set to 14 and we think this is wrong.

Thanks in advance,

Steve Emmerson        steve@unidata.ucar.edu        ...!ncar!unidata!steve


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