Mention if terminating null is included in NAME_MAX/PATH_MAX

Fixes BZ #14872.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index dc7d045..9710e09 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2012-12-11  Siddhesh Poyarekar  <siddhesh@redhat.com>
+
+       [BZ #14872]
+       * manual/conf.texi (Limits on File System Capacity): Mention if
+       terminating null is included in the max size.
+
 2012-12-10  Andreas Jaeger  <aj@suse.de>
 
        * po/cs.po: Update from translation team.

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index bbd7985..9b2e651 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ Version 2.17
   14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719, 14743, 14767,
   14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803, 14805, 14807,
   14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833, 14835, 14838,
-  14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14879, 14889, 14893,
-  14898, 14914.
+  14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872, 14879, 14889,
+  14893, 14898, 14914.
 
 * CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
   EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).

diff --git a/manual/conf.texi b/manual/conf.texi
index 61dc260..55ca4d1 100644 (file)
--- a/manual/conf.texi
+++ b/manual/conf.texi
@@ -1147,14 +1147,16 @@ typed ahead as input.  @xref{I/O Queues}.
 @comment limits.h
 @comment POSIX.1
 @deftypevr Macro int NAME_MAX
-The uniform system limit (if any) for the length of a file name component.
+The uniform system limit (if any) for the length of a file name component, not
+including the terminating null character.
 @end deftypevr
 
 @comment limits.h
 @comment POSIX.1
 @deftypevr Macro int PATH_MAX
 The uniform system limit (if any) for the length of an entire file name (that
-is, the argument given to system calls such as @code{open}).
+is, the argument given to system calls such as @code{open}), including the
+terminating null character.
 @end deftypevr
 
 @cindex limits, pipe buffer size