libltdl and cygwin 1.7.0

2008-04-30 Thread Eric Blake
Cygwin 1.7.0 will change the size of MAX_PATH in its headers, but the old cygwin_conv_to_* API silently suffers from buffer overrun if more than 256 bytes occur in the conversion. As a result, cygwin developers wisely deprecated the old API when adding the new cygwin_path_conv, and compilation

Re: libltdl and cygwin 1.7.0

2008-04-30 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, Eric Blake wrote: Cygwin 1.7.0 will change the size of MAX_PATH in its headers, but the old cygwin_conv_to_* API silently suffers from buffer overrun if more than 256 bytes occur in the conversion. As a result, cygwin developers wisely deprecated the old API when adding

Re: libltdl and cygwin 1.7.0

2008-04-30 Thread Charles Wilson
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:03:19 + (UTC), Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Cygwin 1.7.0 will change the size of MAX_PATH in its headers, but the old cygwin_conv_to_* API silently suffers from buffer overrun if more than 256 bytes occur in the conversion. As a result, cygwin developers