strtoimax: port to HP-UX 11.11

[gnulib.git] / lib / pathmax.h

diff --git a/lib/pathmax.h b/lib/pathmax.h
index cfa14dd..5793e46 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/pathmax.h
+++ b/lib/pathmax.h
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 /* Define PATH_MAX somehow.  Requires sys/types.h.
-   Copyright (C) 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+   Copyright (C) 1992, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2009-2013 Free Software
+   Foundation, Inc.
 
    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -12,42 +13,71 @@
    GNU General Public License for more details.
 
    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-   along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-   Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.  */
+   along with this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
 
 #ifndef _PATHMAX_H
-#define _PATHMAX_H
+# define _PATHMAX_H
 
-#ifdef HAVE_UNISTD_H
-#include <unistd.h>
-#endif
+/* POSIX:2008 defines PATH_MAX to be the maximum number of bytes in a filename,
+   including the terminating NUL byte.
+   <http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/limits.h.html>
+   PATH_MAX is not defined on systems which have no limit on filename length,
+   such as GNU/Hurd.
 
-/* Non-POSIX BSD systems might have gcc's limits.h, which doesn't define
-   PATH_MAX but might cause redefinition warnings when sys/param.h is
-   later included (as on MORE/BSD 4.3).  */
-#if defined(_POSIX_VERSION) || (defined(HAVE_LIMITS_H) && !defined(__GNUC__))
-#include <limits.h>
-#endif
+   This file does *not* define PATH_MAX always.  Programs that use this file
+   can handle the GNU/Hurd case in several ways:
+     - Either with a package-wide handling, or with a per-file handling,
+     - Either through a
+         #ifdef PATH_MAX
+       or through a fallback like
+         #ifndef PATH_MAX
+         # define PATH_MAX 8192
+         #endif
+       or through a fallback like
+         #ifndef PATH_MAX
+         # define PATH_MAX pathconf ("/", _PC_PATH_MAX)
+         #endif
+ */
 
-#ifndef _POSIX_PATH_MAX
-#define _POSIX_PATH_MAX 255
-#endif
+# include <unistd.h>
 
-#if !defined(PATH_MAX) && defined(_PC_PATH_MAX)
-#define PATH_MAX (pathconf ("/", _PC_PATH_MAX) < 1 ? 1024 : pathconf ("/", _PC_PATH_MAX))
-#endif
+# include <limits.h>
+
+# ifndef _POSIX_PATH_MAX
+#  define _POSIX_PATH_MAX 256
+# endif
 
 /* Don't include sys/param.h if it already has been.  */
-#if !defined(PATH_MAX) && !defined(MAXPATHLEN) && !defined(__MSDOS__)
-#include <sys/param.h>
-#endif
+# if defined HAVE_SYS_PARAM_H && !defined PATH_MAX && !defined MAXPATHLEN
+#  include <sys/param.h>
+# endif
+
+# if !defined PATH_MAX && defined MAXPATHLEN
+#  define PATH_MAX MAXPATHLEN
+# endif
 
-#if !defined(PATH_MAX) && defined(MAXPATHLEN)
-#define PATH_MAX MAXPATHLEN
-#endif
+# ifdef __hpux
+/* On HP-UX, PATH_MAX designates the maximum number of bytes in a filename,
+   *not* including the terminating NUL byte, and is set to 1023.
+   Additionally, when _XOPEN_SOURCE is defined to 500 or more, PATH_MAX is
+   not defined at all any more.  */
+#  undef PATH_MAX
+#  define PATH_MAX 1024
+# endif
 
-#ifndef PATH_MAX
-#define PATH_MAX _POSIX_PATH_MAX
-#endif
+# if (defined _WIN32 || defined __WIN32__) && ! defined __CYGWIN__
+/* The page "Naming Files, Paths, and Namespaces" on msdn.microsoft.com,
+   section "Maximum Path Length Limitation",
+   <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247(v=vs.85).aspx#maxpath>
+   explains that the maximum size of a filename, including the terminating
+   NUL byte, is 260 = 3 + 256 + 1.
+   This is the same value as
+     - FILENAME_MAX in <stdio.h>,
+     - _MAX_PATH in <stdlib.h>,
+     - MAX_PATH in <windef.h>.
+   Undefine the original value, because mingw's <limits.h> gets it wrong.  */
+#  undef PATH_MAX
+#  define PATH_MAX 260
+# endif
 
 #endif /* _PATHMAX_H */