Mac OS X Lion: What is the max path length?

Question

I am having trouble finding this information, and trial and error is telling me that the value is very high. So I figured I ask the community to see if anyone knows and can

Answer 1

Old, but I found an answer:

#include 

and then it'll have a PATH_MAX constant as a #define. In my case,

char filenameBuffer [PATH_MAX];

You could hardcode 1024 as the maximum path, but using a constant like that makes your code scalable with new releases