Re: pathconf(2) _PC_NO_TRUNC wrong description ?

[Nicolas Joly <njoly%pasteur.fr@localhost>]

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 02:43:02PM -0400, Matthew Mondor wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:23:19 +0200
> Nicolas Joly <njoly%pasteur.fr@localhost> wrote:
> > 
> > Thanks. Adjusted to :
> > 
> >     Return 0 if filenames longer than {NAME_MAX} are truncated.
> 
> If I understand, it should return 0 if filenames will silently be
> truncated, and 1 if it'll error instead?  Perhaps that also should be
> mentioned if so (I've seen in a Linux man page the following
> description instead: returns non-zero if accessing filenames longer
> than _POSIX_NAME_MAX generates an error).
> 
> If that's true, perhaps we could have "Return 0 if filenames longer
> than {NAME_MAX} are silently truncated, or non-zero if an error is
> generated when {NAME_MAX} is exceeded."

Will do, thanks.

-- 
Nicolas Joly

Biological Software and Databanks.
Institut Pasteur, Paris.