PATH_MAX not declared when compiling on Ubuntu 10.04

只愿长相守 提交于 2020-01-01 05:22:08

问题


I am trying to compile a C program in Ubuntu 10.04 made for 8.04. It fails because we have used PATH_MAX and other constants that should be defined in limits.h. According to various resources, it should be part of a POSIX compatible C library.

Is this a bug in Ubuntu 10.04 or is there a proper way of solving this?


回答1:


POSIX defines many such limits to be optional. If a limit FOO is not defined in limits.h, it means the system may have no such limit or the limit might vary at runtime or dependent upon the pathname it's applied to. In these cases, you use the pathconf, fpathconf, or sysconf functions and the _PC_* and _SC_* macros, as in:

path_max = pathconf("/", _PC_PATH_MAX);

or:

page_size = sysconf(_SC_PAGE_SIZE);

Unfortunately GNU (the GNU C library) defines many limits as runtime-variable when they're actually constant on Linux, in some (in my opinion, very misguided) hope that someday the limits will be removed and applications will immediately be able to take advantage of the removal of the limits. However, for application and kernel robustness, it's actually much better to have fixed limits as long as they're sufficiently large (as the Linux limits are).



来源:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4267390/path-max-not-declared-when-compiling-on-ubuntu-10-04

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