Hello,
on my GNU/Hurd system, running make on rsyslog-8.2108.0 fails, after a
successful configure, because of undefined PATH_MAX and MAXPATHLEN.
GNU/Hurd doesn't use such macros, by design choice, to avoid imposing
arbitrary limits. Also note that POSIX allows those macros, but doesn't
require them.
Additionally, many common uses of PATH_MAX and similar are incorrect:
for example, the Linux kernel does not really enforce a limit on path
lengths, but only on paths to be passed to certain system calls; see
https://insanecoding.blogspot.com/2007/11/pathmax-simply-isnt.html for
example.
Perhaps rsyslog could detect missing PATH_MAX at configure time, but
that's not really a solution; I think the only option is to avoid its
use entirely, resorting to dinamically allocated buffers instead.
I could try that, as there are few instances to replace in rsyslog tree.
Let me know,
Andrea Monaco
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on my GNU/Hurd system, running make on rsyslog-8.2108.0 fails, after a
successful configure, because of undefined PATH_MAX and MAXPATHLEN.
GNU/Hurd doesn't use such macros, by design choice, to avoid imposing
arbitrary limits. Also note that POSIX allows those macros, but doesn't
require them.
Additionally, many common uses of PATH_MAX and similar are incorrect:
for example, the Linux kernel does not really enforce a limit on path
lengths, but only on paths to be passed to certain system calls; see
https://insanecoding.blogspot.com/2007/11/pathmax-simply-isnt.html for
example.
Perhaps rsyslog could detect missing PATH_MAX at configure time, but
that's not really a solution; I think the only option is to avoid its
use entirely, resorting to dinamically allocated buffers instead.
I could try that, as there are few instances to replace in rsyslog tree.
Let me know,
Andrea Monaco
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