Re: getline & getline_safe

[Derek Robert Price]

Paul Edwards wrote:

> "Derek Robert Price" <derek@ximbiot.com> wrote in message 
> news:mailman.447.1059051115.8231.bug-cvs@gnu.org...
>  
>
> > Paul Edwards wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > I think it is usual for a program to have processing restrictions,
> > >
> > > although I would have made it based on a CVS-controlled define,
> > > like CVS_STR_LIMIT, rather than PATH_MAX, which could
> > > potentially be 8, while userid may be 30.
> > >
> > >
> > >      
> > I don't think you're going to find many PATH_MAX's under 256.  I think UNIX and 
> > Windows both have PATH_MAXs of 4096?
> >    
>
> Borland C++ 3.1 for DOS (100% ISO-conforming, forget
> K&R) has no PATH_MAX (not required in ANSI C) and
> has FILENAME_MAX of 80.
>  

That's interesting, though CVS depends on a header it supplies to set 
PATH_MAX, we hope appropriately, when one can't be found.

Is the FILENAME_MAX really 80 chars under DOS?  Is that really the max 
for something like c:\path\path\path\file.txt?  I guess they did used to 
limit to 8.3 filenames, so that is 10 deep.  Wow.  Is anybody still 
using that?

Derek

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