Re: [PATCH 2/2] dir: remove PATH_MAX limitation

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On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 5:42 AM, Karsten Blees <karsten.blees@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 'git status' segfaults if a directory is longer than PATH_MAX, because
> processing .gitignore files in prep_exclude() writes past the end of a
> PATH_MAX-bounded buffer.
>
> Remove the limitation by using strbuf instead.
>
> Note: this fix just 'abuses' strbuf as string allocator, len is always 0.
> prep_exclude() can probably be simplified using more strbuf APIs.

FYI I had a similar patch [1] that attempted to lazily strbuf_init()
instead so that strbuf_ API could be used.

[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/248310
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