Reuben Thomas wrote: > Having looked into this, it seems that the same issues apply to PATH_MAX, > yet gnulib has a pathmax module to define PATH_MAX. What's different in > that case?
Most systems have a PATH_MAX, only the Hurd doesn't. Whereas only few systems have a NAME_MAX (musl libc, Cygwin, Haiku). Therefore more existing code uses PATH_MAX. Bruno