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Re: PATH_MAX
From: |
Neal H Walfield |
Subject: |
Re: PATH_MAX |
Date: |
Sun, 12 Aug 2001 21:07:41 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.3.18i |
> +/* 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
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.
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