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Message-ID: <000301c4d253$aaed1840$86c8a8c0@MervaSBS2003.local>
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 19:30:26 +0100
From: <Casper.Dik@....COM>
To: <kbo@....tiscali.de>
Cc: srevilak@...akeasy.net, James Youngman <bugtraq@...ession.spiral-arm.org>,
parimiv@...haw.com, levon@...ementarian.org,
bugtraq@...urityfocus.com, bug-findutils@....org
Subject: Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?
>I am genuinely surprised that Solaris still has such a
>relatively small PATH_MAX. Linux has 4096.
Really, there are things you cannot change because of
binary compatibility. PATH_MAX is one.
Having a 4K path seems rather pointless; the longest path on my
system is 225 bytes; a factor of 4 over that borders on the ridiculous.
>Like other arbitrary system limits of its ilk, PATH_MAX
>is evil, and is one of the more persuasive arguments for
>getting rid of the C language and its fixed-size
>stack-allocated buffers.
>
>char path[PATH_MAX]; /* considered harmful */
Evil, yes, but old source code never dies.
Casper
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