Re: SCO OpenServer / UnixWare port update

[Kean Johnston <jkj at sco dot com>]

> > Is there a guide, anywhere, of what stuff is "upstream" and
> > what stuff is "gcc"? From my perspective, I have access to
>
>
> It's described at the end of codingconventions.html.
Thank you.

> > MAXPATHLEN isnt a standards-mandated manifest define, AFAIK.
> > Its a BSD-ism. How else do you propose I fix it except to ensure
> > its defined before its use?
>
>
> Dynamic allocation, as required for systems such as GNU HURD with no path 
> length limit, is the proper fix.  (Failing that, PATH_MAX is the POSIX 
> name, but POSIX allows it not to be defined because there may be no limit 
> or it may differ for different filesystems.)

Then the fix to define MAXPATHLEN if not previously defined
is both easier and more portable. Otherwise, I would have
to change code to dynamically create an array rather than
using a stack based local, and that code would have to use
some much-more-likely-to-be-non-portable mechanism for
determining the real maximum path length for the specific
filesystem.

Kean