Hello Juergen, in Quad_SVx.cc around line 570:
char filename[APL_PATH_MAX + 1]; int slen = snprintf(filename, APL_PATH_MAX, "%s/%s", dirname, entry->d_name); if (slen >= APL_PATH_MAX) filename[APL_PATH_MAX] = 0; filename will be returned at most APL_PATH_MAX chars long including \0-termination. So line -3- will do nothing as filename[APL_PATH_MAX-1] is already '\0' dirname is defined as char dirname[APL_PATH_MAX + 1]; Just as a sidestep: If dirname was set to APL_PATH_MAX characters + final \0, then the resulting filename will be filled with a truncated path (one char less ), the following '/' and d_name are being discarded, resulting in an invalid filename . Here is my take: dirname is 4096+1 chars long entry->d_name is 256 chars long So the max length of filename could then be APL_PATH_MAX(%s)+ 1 (/) + 255 (%s) +1 (\0). -> 4353 bytes long. snprintf strips the trailing \0s from the input and adds one. // PATH + / + NAME + \0 enum { FN_MAX_LENGTH=APL_PATH_MAX +1 +255 +1}; char filename[FN_MAX_LENGTH ]; snprintf(filename,FN_MAX_LENGTH , "%s/%s", dirname, entry->d_name); Again, I did not dig deeper into the code/spec to find out whether the maximum filename length should be 4096+1 bytes, then dirname has to be 4k-256byte long , or whether the maximum filename length should be 4353 bytes. Best regards Hans-Peter