[Gllug] Off Topic: C File Descriptors

[Richard Jones]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 04:02:50AM +0100, salsaman at xs4all.nl wrote:
> /usr/include/bits/posix1_lim.h:#define  _POSIX_PATH_MAX         256
> 
> I think you will find 512 > 256

_POSIX_PATH_MAX is the minimum path length that a system has to
support.  It's not related to the actual length supported.

BTW, C is a difficult language to use at the best of times, and unless
you really understand all of this stuff in detail, I'd suggest using a
higher level language which takes care of garbage collection and has
arbitrary length strings.

Rich.

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