Simon Law wrote:
> On 30 Mar 2002, Ed Sweetman wrote:
>
>
>>Ok, fixed it to use PATH_MAX and FILENAME_MAX.
>>also fixed a stupid mistake i made by not catting the trailing / to
>>directories correctly.
>>
>
> Guys, please don't do this. You'll just make it harder for
> yourself on different systems. Remember, on some systems like GNU,
> there is no maximum path length (paths can be infinitely long). On
> other files systems, the maximum path length might be larger or smaller
> than the Linux specific one that you've defined.
>
> Use a String to go and store the path length. Then you don't
> have to worry if the name gets larger or smaller.
I think they actually switched to using the POSIX constant, not one they
defined. I suspect that this is defined on in the Windows environment too.
In spite of this comment, I agree with you. Just use a String, and be done
with it. Use Strings and have no worries Mate!
But, one still might want to define a maximum directory depth anyway just to
keep Windows emulation of Symlinks (for example) from making you crazy in
some goofy environments...
-- Alan Robertson
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