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authorjvoisin2026-04-01 20:37:02 +0200
committerjvoisin2026-04-01 20:37:02 +0200
commit60c096eb0433f7573c768a2c8523abd3c11e0720 (patch)
treec9ff95ee202cabad323855cb6a9dc72c1778e060 /tests/test_realpath.c
parentb35761a1a8378e068fead72f828f2400a20682a8 (diff)
Make do even if PATH_MAX isn't defined
As explained in `man realpath(3)`: > The POSIX.1-2001 standard version of this function is broken by design, > since it is impossible to determine a suitable size for the output > buffer, resolved_path. According to POSIX.1-2001 a buffer of size PATH_MAX > suffices, but PATH_MAX need not be a defined constant, and may have to be > obtained using pathconf(3). And asking pathconf(3) does not really help, > since, on the one hand POSIX warns that the result of pathconf(3) may be huge > and unsuitable for mallocing memory, and on the other hand pathconf(3) may > return -1 to signify that PATH_MAX is not bounded. The re‐ solved_path > == NULL feature, not standardized in POSIX.1-2001, but standardized in > POSIX.1-2008, allows this design problem to be avoided. So we can either not compile, or be pragmatic, and define PATH_MAX to a sane value, like 4096, which is the one used on Linux and some/most BSD. This commit also adds two tests to ensure that things aren't catastrophically broken by this change.
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1#include "common.h"
2
3#include <stdlib.h>
4#include <stdio.h>
5
6int main(int argc, char** argv) {
7 char buf[PATH_MAX];
8 char* rpath = realpath("/root/../", buf);
9 printf("%s\n", rpath);
10 return 0;
11}