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support for systems without maxpathlen (ITS#1435)



Full_Name: Wichert Akkerman
Version: 2.0.18
OS: Linux
URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/
Submission from: (NULL) (213.84.101.140)


POSIX does not require MAXPATHLEN to exist, and some systems
such as GNU/Hurd indeed support infinite length path names.
The contributed file (wichert-20011112.maxpathlen) is a patch
that applies to 2.0.18 to add support for such systems by
dynamically allocating buffers of the required length.