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RE: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch On Cygwin(Win32)
From: |
Parker, Ron |
Subject: |
RE: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch On Cygwin(Win32) |
Date: |
Mon, 17 Nov 2003 12:10:04 -0600 |
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Kinson [mailto:address@hidden
> Having looked at the POSIX spec though, I'm not sure Cygwin should be
> changed at all. The spec states (see
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/basedefs/limits.h.html)
> that PATH_MAX should have a Minimum Acceptable Value of
> _POSIX_PATH_MAX.
> _POSIX_PATH_MAX is defined by POSIX to be 256.
<snip>
I had contemplated bringing up this very point, but then I realized that
there is very little software that conforms to the POSIX
least-common-denominator. If you doubt this, go to the source for the Linux
kernel and run 'find -type f|xargs pathchk -p'. You will find that many
files exceed the _POSIX_NAME_MAX, which is only 14, others contain
non-portable characters, e.g. '+'. Even conventional backup files like
cygwin.h~ contain the non-portable character '~'. This also applies to ',',
'+' and some of the other filename characters used by tla.
When I realized how easy it would be to shoot down the POSIX LCD conformance
argument I decided not to raise it. This does not mean that I personally
think it would be a bad idea for tla to work within the _POSIX_PATH_MAX
limit, but I know the file naming conventions have been hashed over several
times on this list, and I do not expect to change anyone's mind, for or
against, at this point.
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch On Cygwin(Win32), (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch On Cygwin(Win32), Robert Collins, 2003/11/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch On Cygwin(Win32), Robert Collins, 2003/11/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch On Cygwin(Win32), John Kinson, 2003/11/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch On Cygwin(Win32), Robert Collins, 2003/11/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch On Cygwin(Win32), John Kinson, 2003/11/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch On Cygwin(Win32), Robert Collins, 2003/11/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch On Cygwin(Win32), John Kinson, 2003/11/20
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch On Cygwin(Win32), Robert Collins, 2003/11/20
RE: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch On Cygwin(Win32), Parker, Ron, 2003/11/13
RE: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch On Cygwin(Win32),
Parker, Ron <=
RE: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch On Cygwin(Win32), Parker, Ron, 2003/11/17
RE: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch On Cygwin(Win32), Parker, Ron, 2003/11/17
RE: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch On Cygwin(Win32), Parker, Ron, 2003/11/20
RE: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch On Cygwin(Win32), wlist, 2003/11/27