[BusyBox] [PATCH] PATH_MAX undefined in [u]mount.c

[M. R. Brown]

* Neal H Walfield <neal at cs.uml.edu> on Sat, Jan 26, 2002:

> > > > Practically speaking, though, most new os's define PATH_MAX in
> > > > limits.h,
> > > 
> > > Well, the GNU Hurd does not.
> > 
> > 1) Hurd isn't new, it's older than Linux.
> 
> Linux is a new implementation of Unix.  Unix was redesigned in 1969;
> the Hurd was designed in the 1990s.
> 

You're a bit confused.  The Hurd was "designed" in 1990.  Linux came a year
later.  It doesn't matter what they are based on, the Hurd is based on
something from 1983.  Linux is not a new implementation of Unix.  It's an
operating system based upon Unix concepts.  Are you able to discern the
difference?

> > 2) How is that related to anything?
> 
> The Hurd does not define PATH_MAX, he says that he does not know of
> an OS that does not define PATH_MAX.

No.  He said MOST new OS's define PATH_MAX.  Nowhere did he state that he
was unware of an OS that didn't.  For whatever reason you saw that as a
reason to promote the Hurd, even though the Hurd has nothing to do with
the conversation, which is workarounds for broken GCC implementations.  In
this thread, there is nothing that can be learned from talking about what
the Hurd does or does not do.

I think I've veered too off-topic now, I'll shut up.

M. R.
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