netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2] Use PATH_MAX instead of MAXPATHLEN

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Date:	Wed, 29 Apr 2015 18:52:05 +0200
From:	Felix Janda <felix.janda@...teo.de>
To:	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Cc:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] Use PATH_MAX instead of MAXPATHLEN

Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 27/04/15 09:13, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Sat, 25 Apr 2015 22:33:28 +0200
> > Felix Janda <felix.janda@...teo.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@...teo.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

This is correct. (In fact I misread the end of Stephen's message,
thought that the patch was merged and wanted to thank for that.)

Felix
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