Re: The lack of UNIX_PATH_MAX on sys/un.h

[<tomas at tuxteam dot de>]

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On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 10:49:57PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 12/07/2017 10:33 PM, omri wrote:
> 
> >The change to use sys/un.h is fairly trivial but I was using the UNIX_PATH_MAX
> >definition.
> >
> >Is there any reason this isn't defined in glibc? are there any reservations from adding it?
> 
> I don't think it is in any standard.
> 
> UNIX_PATH_MAX is also a misnomer, it's just the size of the defined
> array in struct sockaddr_un.  The actual kernel limit is somewhere
> around PATH_MAX.

Poking around the 'nets seems to confirm that. Other people stumbled
upon that [1], [2], and the consensus seems to be to steer clear of
UNIX_PATH_MAX wich sometimes is even inconsistent.

Instead, sizeof(address.sun_path) seems to be a good alternative.

[1] http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/PATCH-0-3-index-helper-fix-UNIX-PATH-MAX-redefinition-error-on-cygwin-td7652915.html
[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/lsb/+bug/1327331

Cheers
- -- tomás
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