Re: Missing MAXNAMLEN?

[walt <wa1ter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 06:36:06AM -0800, walt wrote:
> > FreeBSD, NetBSD, linux all define MAXNAMLEN in dirent.h, but not DFly.
> > Is this an oversight or deliberate?
>
> Deliberate. It doesn't make any sense and PATH_MAX or NAME_MAX should be
> used instead. MAXNAMLEN is the historic limitation of FFS, for the
> archive.

Yes, I see now.  This is how linux works around it:

#  ifdef NAME_MAX
#   define MAXNAMLEN    NAME_MAX
#  else
#   define MAXNAMLEN    255
#  endif
# endif