On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 02:43:24PM +0100, Frederico S. Mu�oz wrote: > Just for the record, is the correct way of dealing with the thousands of > packages that have MAXPATHLEN (and PATHMAX et al.) issues
Did you count them? There are probably hundreds, but not many (in Debian, perhaps about 200-300, a couple of dozen fixed already). > is to change the > code of every single one of them so that they can use the asprintf and > alloca, etc? Yes. > BTW, I am thinking of taking an example from epic that used MAXPATHLEN and > post it here with my change to it... that way you could tell me if I'm doing > things the Right Way (dunno if this is the correct mailing list, if it isn't > please tell me, i.e. is it better to go to bug-hurd?). Well, both are appropriate, but pick one. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org for public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
