From f70bfe80e25122d88acf42c88ffe4133a8b93081 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Siddhesh Poyarekar Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:01:02 +0530 Subject: Mention if terminating null is included in NAME_MAX/PATH_MAX Fixes BZ #14872. --- manual/conf.texi | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'manual/conf.texi') diff --git a/manual/conf.texi b/manual/conf.texi index 61dc260317..55ca4d10cd 100644 --- a/manual/conf.texi +++ b/manual/conf.texi @@ -1147,14 +1147,16 @@ typed ahead as input. @xref{I/O Queues}. @comment limits.h @comment POSIX.1 @deftypevr Macro int NAME_MAX -The uniform system limit (if any) for the length of a file name component. +The uniform system limit (if any) for the length of a file name component, not +including the terminating null character. @end deftypevr @comment limits.h @comment POSIX.1 @deftypevr Macro int PATH_MAX The uniform system limit (if any) for the length of an entire file name (that -is, the argument given to system calls such as @code{open}). +is, the argument given to system calls such as @code{open}), including the +terminating null character. @end deftypevr @cindex limits, pipe buffer size -- cgit 1.4.1