Re: PATH_MAX

[Christopher Yeoh <cyeoh@samba.org>]

Thorsten Kukuk writes:
> 
> So a lot of tests fails.
> If you know uses a fixed kernel and recompiled glibc with 
> PATH_MAX = 4096, also some tests fails, because sysconfig
> does not return the expected value.
> 
> Any suggestions what to do? Should LSB require PATH_MAX 4096
> and compile the test suite with this?

I believe we were planning on waiving these test failures due to this
PATH_MAX problem as fixes for the kernel and glibc and still flowing
through the systems. But it should be 4096 and it would preferable to
have tests pass where this has been corrected.

I think I can just compile the next release of the binary test suites
with PATH_MAX set to 4096 (does glibc need any other patches for this
to work properly?).

This will lead to some other tests failing on systems where PATH_MAX
has not been fixed due to sysconfig inconsistencies but we can waive
these for a limited time. If this change also causes other tests to
fail on those systesms and and as a result we miss checking
functionality we want to, we may need to revert this and just waive
the sysconfig test failures you're seeing.

Regards,

Chris.
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