Hi, Mike Frysinger, le Sun 12 Aug 2007 10:07:01 -0400, a écrit : > > The above patch is just to avoid the risky exercice which is rewriting > > of code into length-unlimited loop. But MAXPATHLEN & such should really > > used as "oops, the system is limited to this", not as "how much memory > > should I allocate for my path?". Some system may very well define > > MAXPATHLEN to MAXINT... > > ah, i missed the statement in POSIX where these defines may be omitted ... may > be worthwhile i think to go through the code and just get rid of usage of all > of these _MAX defines by querying the actual limits at runtime ... There may be no runtime limit either actually. Samuel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html