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[Xen-devel] Re: Use PATH_MAX for pathname char arrays.
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| Subject: | [Xen-devel] Re: Use PATH_MAX for pathname char arrays. |
| From: | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Fri, 4 Apr 2008 16:17:20 +0200 |
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Hello, Using PATH_MAX is not a good idea: POSIX says that that definition is facultative, in case the system does not impose any limit on path length. Some systems may also set PATH_MAX to a quite high value, and we would hence consume a lot of stack. Samuel _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel |
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