Hi Vincent,
On Tuesday, 2017-09-19 12:18:34 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Now, I don't see much point in defining both _POSIX_PATH_MAX and
> PATH_MAX for similar meanings. POSIX is strange, sometimes. :)
Might be ;-) but in this case the important difference is
_POSIX_PATH_MAX
Minimum number
On 2017-09-18 20:11:12 +0200, Eike Rathke wrote:
> On Monday, 2017-09-18 13:13:07 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>
> > > [... _POSIX_PATH_MAX ...]
> > > (which usually is defined to 256 including null char).
> >
> > And it must be 256 in the current POSIX version:
> >
> > {_POSIX_PATH_MAX}
> >
Hi Vincent,
On Monday, 2017-09-18 13:13:07 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > [... _POSIX_PATH_MAX ...]
> > (which usually is defined to 256 including null char).
>
> And it must be 256 in the current POSIX version:
>
> {_POSIX_PATH_MAX}
> Minimum number the implementation will accept as t
On 2017-09-16 03:17:20 +0200, Eike Rathke wrote:
> On Friday, 2017-09-15 13:02:25 -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 09:43:58AM -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> > > On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 12:58:18AM +0200, Eike Rathke wrote:
> > > > Maybe path related destination buffers also
Hi,
On Friday, 2017-09-15 13:02:25 -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 09:43:58AM -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 12:58:18AM +0200, Eike Rathke wrote:
> > > Maybe path related destination buffers also shouldn't be
> > > of _POSIX_PATH_MAX but PATH_MAX
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 01:02:25PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> his is just a variation of the strncpy() problem... BUT, at least
> sprintf() can be checked, whereas strncpy() always truncates
> silently, so sprintf() is the better choice.
* snprintf()...
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On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 09:43:58AM -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 12:58:18AM +0200, Eike Rathke wrote:
> > This is nothing overly critical (not even in mutt_rmtree() if
> > a truncated string also represents an existing directory entry, as there
> > was a checked opendir(
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 12:58:18AM +0200, Eike Rathke wrote:
> This is nothing overly critical (not even in mutt_rmtree() if
> a truncated string also represents an existing directory entry, as there
> was a checked opendir(path) and all entries are to be removed, but
> truncated will not be remove
Hi,
This is nothing overly critical (not even in mutt_rmtree() if
a truncated string also represents an existing directory entry, as there
was a checked opendir(path) and all entries are to be removed, but
truncated will not be removed as intended, so..), just a heads-up that
some long paths may g
