Re: [PATCH iproute2] Use PATH_MAX instead of MAXPATHLEN

Stephen Hemminger
2015-04-27T16:13:30Z

On Sat, 25 Apr 2015 22:33:28 +0200
Felix Janda <felix.janda@posteo.de> wrote:

> They are equivalent but the former is more common. PATH_MAX is
> specified by POSIX and needs <limits.h> while MAXPATHLEN has BSD
> origin and needs <sys/param.h>.
>
> PATH_MAX has already been in use in misc/lnstat.h.
>
> Signed-off-by: Felix Janda <felix.janda@posteo.de>

Iproute2 is intended for use on Linux.
It makes more sense to align with Posix than using leftover
BSD stuff. Therefore I don't see any point in doing this.