On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Vincent Torri <vto...@univ-evry.fr> wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Dec 2010, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 12:55 AM, Enlightenment SVN
>> <no-re...@enlightenment.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Log:
>>> and if i'm breaking shit... i may as well put it at the end, so if
>>>  size changes later to be bigger, existing code doesnt break (due to
>>>  the way this is meant to be accessed).
>>
>>>    size_t               path_length; /**< size of the whole path */
>>>    size_t               name_length; /**< size of the filename/basename
>>> component */
>>>    size_t               name_start; /**< where the filename/basename
>>> component starts */
>>> +   Eina_File_Type       type; /**< file type */
>>>    char                 path[EINA_PATH_MAX]; /**< the path */
>>> -   Eina_File_Type       type; /**< file type */
>>
>> that's it! the actual value from PATH_MAX shouldn't matter as it's
>> filled in the code, users should trust it's \0 terminated and size of
>> name_length.
>>
>> HOWEVER, you did not update eina_file.c to use EINA_PATH_MAX, it's
>> still using PATH_MAX that may be bigger than EINA_PATH_MAX (although
>> it matches in most systems)
>
> why not something like
>  char path[1];
> and allocating the memory ? (with path at the end, it's possible)

Because the current code doesn't do any allocation and we want to
limit allocation.
-- 
Cedric BAIL

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