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- /* Minimum guaranteed maximum values for system limits. Hurd version.
-
- Copyright (C) 1993, 1994 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
- This file is part of the GNU C Library.
-
- The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
- published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
- License, or (at your option) any later version.
-
- The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
- Library General Public License for more details.
-
- You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
- License along with the GNU C Library; see the file COPYING.LIB. If
- not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave,
- Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */
-
- /* GNU has no arbitrary fixed limits on these things, so we don't
- define the macros. Some things are unlimited. Some are in fact
- limited but the limit is run-time dependent and fetched with
- `sysconf' or `pathconf'.
-
- POSIX.1 requires that we define NGROUPS_MAX (though none of the others
- is required). GNU allows any number of supplementary groups,
- dynamically allocated. So we pick a number which seems vaguely
- suitable, and `sysconf' will return a number at least as large. */
-
- #define NGROUPS_MAX 256
-
- /* The maximum number of symbolic links that are allowed in a single file
- name resolution. When a further link is encountered, the call returns
- ELOOP. This name is a GNU extension; POSIX.1 has no such limit, and BSD
- calls it MAXSYMLINKS in <sys/param.h>. */
-
- #ifdef __USE_GNU /* 1003.1a defines this */
- #define SYMLOOP_MAX 8
- #endif
-