On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 10:28:08PM +0300, Yuriy M. Kaminskiy wrote: > > For some reason I thought d_name would be allocated, in which case > > strlen() would be > > more appropriate. Thank you for pointing out it is very static 255 > > buffer, so added the > > Is this *defined by standard*? I believe not. > === man dirent.h === > The character array d_name is of unspecified size, but the number of > bytes preceding the terminating null byte shall not exceed {NAME_MAX}. I don't read this as sizeof(d->d_name) is wrong thing as it's array. Anyway, use NAME_MAX seems like the most robust solution. Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html