Where is PATH_MAX defined in Linux?

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Its in linux/limits.h.
#define PATH_MAX 4096 /* # chars in a path name including nul */

#include <linux/limits.h>

char current_path[PATH_MAX];

PATH_MAX has some flaws as mentioned in this blog (thanks paulsm4)

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