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@@ -157,14 +157,22 @@ allocated buffer. One can thus use:
Same rationale as `PATH_MAX`. There is no limit on the number of arguments.
This limit can be simply ignored, or replaced by an arbitrary constant, there is
-no restriction issue here.
+no restriction issue here:
+
+ #ifndef ARG_MAX
+ # define ARG_MAX 128
+ #endif
## <a name="IOV_MAX"> `IOV_MAX` </a>
Same rationale as `PATH_MAX`. There is no limit on the number of iovec items.
This limit can be simply ignored, or replaced by an arbitrary constant, there is
-no restriction issue here.
+no restriction issue here:
+
+ #ifndef IOV_MAX
+ # define IOV_MAX 1024
+ #endif
## <a name="MAXHOSTNAMELEN_tt_"> `MAXHOSTNAMELEN`, `HOST_NAME_MAX` </a>