struct dirent question

[Tobias Roth]

On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 10:26:13PM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote:
> Does the ifdef in the struct dirent (pasted in below) make any sense? 
> Seems like regardless of whether the __BSD_VISIBLE is defined or not, 
> the d_name length will always be 255 + 1.
> 
> Eric
> 
> 
> struct dirent {
>         __uint32_t d_fileno;            /* file number of entry */
>         __uint16_t d_reclen;            /* length of this record */
>         __uint8_t  d_type;              /* file type, see below */
>         __uint8_t  d_namlen;            /* length of string in d_name */
> #if __BSD_VISIBLE
> #define MAXNAMLEN       255
>         char    d_name[MAXNAMLEN + 1];  /* name must be no longer than 
> this */
> #else
>         char    d_name[255 + 1];        /* name must be no longer than 
> this */
> #endif
> };

The difference is whether MAXNAMLEN is defined or not, the value of d_name
is irrelevant. How far not defining MAXNAMLEN (in the case __BSD_VISIBLE=
false) makes sense, I cannot tell.

cheers, t.