>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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