From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
Felix Janda <felix.janda@posteo.de>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] Use PATH_MAX instead of MAXPATHLEN
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 15:47:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55400DE7.9080501@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150427091334.01323146@urahara>
On 27/04/15 09:13, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 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.
My reading from Felix's commit message is that he is attempting to do
exactly that: conform to POSIX rather than BSD, which seems to be the
direction you are also suggesting here.
--
Florian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-28 22:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-25 20:33 [PATCH iproute2] Use PATH_MAX instead of MAXPATHLEN Felix Janda
2015-04-27 16:13 ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-04-28 22:47 ` Florian Fainelli [this message]
2015-04-29 16:52 ` Felix Janda
2015-07-21 20:40 ` Yegor Yefremov
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