Is there an equivalent to WinAPI's MAX_PATH under linux/unix?

Question

If I want to allocate a char array (in C) that is guaranteed to be large enough to hold any valid absolute path+filename, how big does it need to be.

On Win32, ther

Answer 1

You can use pathconf() to figure out at run-time, but there's also a PATH_MAX preprocessor define in <limits.h>.