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Subject: Re: [boost] [release] 1.66.0 closing for beta tomorrow
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-11-12 11:56:52


Rene Rivera wrote:

> Problem is that the path max depends on context. For some contexts it's
> the short 256, or is it 6xx, and some others it's 2K, and yet others it's
> 32K, and depending on the OS version and some magic registry settings it
> could
be unlimited.

Not really. It's always 260, including the terminating NULL. The limitation
will be going away in a decade or two though.


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