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Re: PATH_MAX and test-stat.h
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: PATH_MAX and test-stat.h |
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Sat, 18 Jun 2011 15:24:38 -0700 |
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On 06/18/11 15:18, James Youngman wrote:
> I suspect that the most useful thing we can do in gnulib is define
> PATH_MAX to a non-constant expression on all platforms, even the ones
> in which it is normally a constant expression.
That goes a bit too far, I'd think. Some code assumes
a constant PATH_MAX only on some platforms; for example, gnulib
lib/stat.c declares an array of size PATH_MAX + 1
only on MingW. We don't want to reject usage like that.
Re: PATH_MAX and test-stat.h, Eric Blake, 2011/06/20
[PATCH] test-stat: don't allocate PATH_MAX bytes, Eric Blake, 2011/06/20