Re: New session management patch.

[Richard Stallman]

    AFAIK, MAXPATHLEN is not an arbitrary limit, it's something specific to 
    each platform.  It tells how long can a file name be on that system.

There isn't really any such limit in the system.
The symbol MAXPATHLEN is just a recommended arbitrary limit
for user programs to impose.

However, in GNU our convention is that you shouldn't have arbitrary
limits.