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Operations on file descriptors in addition to pathnames Lassi Kortela (11 Dec 2019 12:43 UTC)
Re: Operations on file descriptors in addition to pathnames Lassi Kortela (12 Dec 2019 12:59 UTC)
Re: Operations on file descriptors in addition to pathnames Lassi Kortela (12 Dec 2019 13:21 UTC)
Re: Operations on file descriptors in addition to pathnames Lassi Kortela (12 Dec 2019 13:27 UTC)
Re: Operations on file descriptors in addition to pathnames Lassi Kortela (18 Dec 2019 20:52 UTC)

Re: Operations on file descriptors in addition to pathnames Lassi Kortela 18 Dec 2019 20:52 UTC

> We can finesse this by saying in the SRFI something like
> "Implementations are encouraged but not required to use POSIX
> [whatever]at if the supplied /path/ is greater than PATH_MAX.

Note that POSIX allows PATH_MAX to be dynamic. One should fetch the
current value via sysconf():
<https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/sysconf.html>.

More fun from that page:

"Some values, such as {PATH_MAX}, are sometimes so large that they must
not be used to, say, allocate arrays. The sysconf() function returns a
negative value to show that this symbolic constant is not even defined
in this case."