Re: need advice on readlink and PATH_MAX

To: Known Human Nick Rusnov <nick@grawk.net>
Cc: debian-hurd@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: need advice on readlink and PATH_MAX
From: Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 04:05:47 -0400 (EDT)
Message-id: <[🔎] 20010725080547.DEFBC99306@perdition.linnaean.org>
In-reply-to: Known Human Nick Rusnov's message of Tue, 24 July 2001 20:51:48 -0700 <[🔎] 200107250351.f6P3pm0w031709@grawk.net>

The portable (POSIX.1-specified) thing to do is call lstat and st_size will
be the number of bytes that readlink will read.

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