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Re: PATH_MAX
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Jim Meyering |
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Re: PATH_MAX |
Date: |
Sun, 12 Aug 2001 21:33:26 +0200 |
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Neal H Walfield <neal@cs.uml.edu> wrote:
>> +/* Distinguish between the cases when pathconf fails and when it reports
>> there
>> + is no limit (the latter is the case for PATH_MAX on the Hurd). When
>> there
>> + is no limit, return LONG_MAX. Otherwise, return pathconf's return
>> value. */
>
> Are you sure that you really want to do this? You use the result of
For pathchk.c, I think it's fine.
Obviously in other cases that won't work at all and I'll have
to use a different approach.
> this in a variety of places as arrays on the stack. This is basically
> guaranteed to cause a seg fault. Even if you changed that code to use
> malloc, this is still way to large.