[edk2-devel] Why is MAX_LONG_FILE_PATH 500 vs. PATH_MAX?

[Andrew Fish via groups.io]

Does anyone know why MAX_LONG_FILE_PATH [1] is hard coded to 500 vs. using the systems PATH_MAX?

On Linux I think PATH_MAX is 4KiB and on macOS it is 1KiB.


[1] https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/master/BaseTools/Source/C/Common/CommonLib.h#L17 <https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/master/BaseTools/Source/C/Common/CommonLib.h#L17>

Thanks,

Andrew Fish

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