Re: $USERPROFILE for $HOME on W32

[Andreas Schwab]

"Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:

> Silly me: it's defined on w32.c, right there.  The pw_dir etc. struct
> members are defined as fixed-size strings, and the sizes are all 256
> bytes, including the terminating null.  So I think, at least that
> should be changed to 261, since the longest file name supported by
> Windows is 260 characters.

Any fixed length would be wrong, IMHO.  Can't this just be dynamically
allocated?

Andreas.

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