On 08/03/2011, at 4:38 PM, John Bartleson wrote:

> I'm suspicious, though, that the 50 bytes I've allowed for the
> string returned by getxattr in the second method above might not be enough on 
> a multi-monitor
> system.


You could just make it bigger - it's a very transient piece of memory on the 
stack (or, if that's a problem, just malloc and free a chunk). Since getxattr 
allows you to pass in the max size of the buffer, it's also safe from a buffer 
overflow attack.

--Graham


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