From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: Use PATH_MAX for pathname char arrays.
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 16:17:20 +0200
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Hello,

Using PATH_MAX is not a good idea: POSIX says that that definition
is facultative, in case the system does not impose any limit on path
length.  Some systems may also set PATH_MAX to a quite high value, and
we would hence consume a lot of stack.

Samuel