Re: [bug #55449] Use FILENAME_MAX in maxfilename.cpp

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2019 15:10:35 +0100
> From: Steffen Nurpmeso <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote in <address@hidden>:
>  |> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2019 14:42:31 +0100
>  |> From: Steffen Nurpmeso <address@hidden>
>  |> Cc: address@hidden
>  |> 
>  |>|I think FILENAME_MAX is Standard ANSI C symbol, so it can/should be
>  |> 
>  |> NAME_MAX was also ANSI C by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie.
>  |> ANSI C says
>  |> 
>  |>   NAME_MAX 14 /* longest filename-component; system-dependent */
>  |
>  |No, NAME_MAX is Posix, not ANSI.
> 
> I was citing the ANSI C book of the mentioned, like i have said.

I checked two ANSI C Standard versions, one C9x, the other C11x, and
neither mentions NAME_MAX; both do mention FILENAME_MAX.  So I'm quite
sure NAME_MAX was introduced by Posix, and isn't ANSI.