From: Chip Salzenberg (chip@tct.com)
Date: 08/05/92 

From: chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg)
Subject: Re: Function that returns max filename length
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1992 18:29:40 GMT

According to duperval@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Duperval Laurent):
>On Sun stations, MAXPATHLEN defines the longestname for a path.

Not so! What if the Sun has mounted, by NFS, a SCO UNIX filesystem
with a 14-character filename length limit? That's why pathconf() is a
function instead of a macro. 

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