Re: [PATCH v2 01/21] path.c: avoid PATH_MAX as buffer size from get_pathname()

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On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@xxxxxx> wrote:
> If we really want to go away from PATH_MAX, is a hard-coded value of 4096 so attractive ?
> Because we can either
>
> a) Re-define PATH_MAX in git-compat-util.h
> b) Use an own  #define in git-compat-util.h, like e.g. GIT_PATH_MAX
> c) Change the code to use a "strbuf" which can grow on demand.
>
> I would prefer c) over b) over a)

Looking at the code again, c) looks feasible after updating
git_snpath() to accept a strbuf instead of buffer/size pair.
-- 
Duy
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