From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: $USERPROFILE for $HOME on W32 Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 14:26:36 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87vfbycsgj.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <87mzx69bkn.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <01c4d338$Blat.v2.2.2$34177b80@zahav.net.il> <01c4d3fa$Blat.v2.2.2$7bc7e880@zahav.net.il> <01c4d464$Blat.v2.2.2$572558e0@zahav.net.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1101562064 882 80.91.229.6 (27 Nov 2004 13:27:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 13:27:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, jasonr@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 27 14:27:39 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CY2by-0006x2-00 for ; Sat, 27 Nov 2004 14:27:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CY2lH-0001Dg-Dg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Nov 2004 08:37:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CY2lA-0001Db-HH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Nov 2004 08:37:08 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CY2lA-0001DP-4W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Nov 2004 08:37:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CY2lA-0001DM-16 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Nov 2004 08:37:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.135.220.2] (helo=Cantor.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1CY2b2-0000Nb-9b; Sat, 27 Nov 2004 08:26:40 -0500 Original-Received: from hermes.suse.de (hermes-ext.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by Cantor.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D3F5117BDF8; Sat, 27 Nov 2004 14:26:37 +0100 (CET) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii X-Yow: MMM-MM!! So THIS is BIO-NEBULATION! In-Reply-To: <01c4d464$Blat.v2.2.2$572558e0@zahav.net.il> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 27 Nov 2004 11:33:46 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:30429 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:30429 "Eli Zaretskii" writes: >> Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, jasonr@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org >> From: Andreas Schwab >> Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 00:42:07 +0100 >>=20 >> 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. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany Key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."