[email protected] wrote:
> On 07/12/10 23:40, Greg Ercolano wrote:
>> # define FL_PATH_MAX 256 /**< all path buffers should use this length */
>> [..]
>> Should our max be larger?
>
> I'd say yes, nowadays - though I think the 256 limit may have been true
> for Win95? I think it was true for Win3.1...
>
> I'd hazard that those limits may not be all that relevant now though.
>
> Does anyone know of a platform we still support where the max pathlen is
> smaller than 4096?
Not sure how we use this, but if it's just to allocate string buffers
in FLTK, I'm thinking we should always use the larger value.
In other words, regardless of the OS limitations; we should handle
long pathnames correctly; let the OS fail with 'pathname too long'
if it can't handle it.
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