At 11:31 AM -0500 8/16/06, Eric Anderson wrote:
My point was, that either path you take (if BSD_VISIBLE is defined or not), you end up with d_name having a size of 255 + 1, so what's the point the having it at all?
To make it clear that d_name is tied to the exact value of MAXNAMLEN (just in case that value ever changes), and it does not just happen to be 255+1 bytes for some reason that is completely unrelated to MAXNAMLEN. So if some programmer is working with the d_name variable, and *if* they actually look at this include file, then they'll immediately realize that any checks that they make should use MAXNAMLEN, and not hard-code in the 255 value. That's my 2-cents worth, at least... -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Systems Programmer or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
