From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, jasonr@gnu.org
Subject: Re: $USERPROFILE for $HOME on W32
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 14:26:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jehdnbtoc3.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01c4d464$Blat.v2.2.2$572558e0@zahav.net.il> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 27 Nov 2004 11:33:46 +0200")
"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, jasonr@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
>> Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 00:42:07 +0100
>>
>> Any fixed length would be wrong, IMHO. Can't this just be dynamically
>> allocated?
>
> Any _arbitrary_ fixed length is wrong. But if the filesystem supports
> at most FILENAME_MAX-long file names, then using FILENAME_MAX for
> strings that hold file names is not arbitrary.
What if someone sets HOME to something longer? It won't work as filename,
sure, but Emacs should not crash just because of this.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-27 13:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-22 6:26 $USERPROFILE for $HOME on W32 Stefan Monnier
2004-11-22 8:44 ` Jason Rumney
2004-11-22 13:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-11-25 16:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-11-25 16:34 ` Jason Rumney
2004-11-25 16:54 ` Stefan
2004-11-25 21:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-11-25 22:46 ` Jason Rumney
2004-11-26 10:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-11-25 16:57 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-11-25 17:45 ` Stefan
2004-11-25 17:49 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-11-25 21:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-11-26 20:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-11-26 23:42 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-11-27 9:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-11-27 13:26 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2004-11-27 16:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-11-27 17:46 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-11-25 22:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-11-25 23:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-11-26 10:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-11-26 14:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-11-26 20:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-11-26 22:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-11-27 11:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-12-06 23:17 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-11-22 15:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-11-22 16:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-11-23 11:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-11-23 8:30 ` Jason Rumney
2004-11-23 11:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-11-23 20:47 ` Jason Rumney
2004-11-23 20:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-11-24 8:17 ` John Paul Wallington
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