Change made.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > In fact, I now see that there was no such problem. I do wonder why the > > 32 is there, though? Shouldn't it be 6 or something like that? > > Whoever it was was too lazy to count accurately ;-) > > I guess I'd vote for changing the code to be > > sys = malloc(strlen(editorName) + strlen(fname) + 10 + 1); > if (!sys) > return false; > sprintf(sys, "exec '%s' '%s'", editorName, fname); > > (note the added quotes to provide a little protection against spaces > and such). Then it's perfectly obvious what the calculation is doing. > I don't care about wasting 20-some bytes, but confusing readers of the > code is worth avoiding. > > regards, tom lane > -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]