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

Neal H Walfield neal at cs.uml.edu
Sat Jan 26 18:52:04 UTC 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.

> 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.



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