Change made.

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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
> 

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